Charlotte Collins

Charlotte Collins is a British literary translator of contemporary literature and drama from German.

Career

Collins studied English literature at Christ's College, Cambridge, then trained in acting at The Poor School, London. She worked as an actor and radio journalist in the UK and Germany before becoming a translator.[1][2] She was Co-Chair of the Translators Association from 2017-2020, and is the creator of the Translators Association - 60 Years of Classic Translation series.[3]

2016 – Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler[4]
2017 – Goethe-Institut Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize in 2017 for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler[5]
2017 – Shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
2017 – Longlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
2020 – Longlisted with co-translator Ruth Martin for the International Booker Prize for The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili[6]
2020 – Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (with Ruth Martin)

2015 – A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Picador)
2016 – The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler (House of Anansi Press/Picador)
2018 – The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells (Sceptre)
2018 – Homeland by Walter Kempowski (Granta)
2019 – The Club by Takis Würger (Grove Atlantic)
2019 – The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili, co-translated with Ruth Martin (Scribe UK)
2020 – Olga by Bernhard Schlink (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
2021 (forthcoming) – The Field by Robert Seethaler (Picador)
2021 (forthcoming) – Refugee: A Memoir by Emmanuel Mbolela (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Collins is the author of two bilingual novels for children/young adults:

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