Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with some thirty books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish, and French) include fiction from Africa, Europe, and Latin America, and nonfiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. He has both judged and won the Independent Foreign Fiction prize award; not, obviously, in the same year. A past chair of the UK Translators Association, he is currently national program director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. (Photo credit: John Lawrence)