Sherwood, Julia Translations Bibliography Reception

Biography

Julia Sherwood (née Kalinová) was born and grew up in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia.  After studying English and Slavonic languages and literature at universities in Cologne, London (Czech and Slovak literature) and Munich (MA thesis on Czech-Jewish writer Jiří Langer, 1983) she settled in the UK, where she spent more than 20 years working for Amnesty International.  She travelled widely in Eastern and Central Europe and the former USSR following the changes in 1989, deepening her knowledge of the languages and literatures of the region.  Since moving to the US in 2008 she has worked as a freelance translator from English, Czech, Slovak, German,  Polish and Russian into Slovak and English. She is editor-at-large for Slovakia at Asymptote and administers the Facebook group Slovak Literature in English translation (which includes information on translations of Czech literature). She is Chair of the NGO Rights in Russia, and divides her time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and London.

(Editor of this page: Sosity Bea)