Authors & Translators

Gaëlle Bélem is from Réunion. She is the author of two novels in French – Un monstre est là, derrière la porte (2020) and Le fruit le plus rare (2023) – both published by Gallimard.

She teaches Latin, History and Geography to secondary school students and works as an associate judge in a juvenile court.

Un monstre est là, derrière la porte was awarded the Grand Prix du Roman Métis (2020) and the Prix André Dubreuil du Premier Roman (2020).

Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, literary translator specializing in Caribbean and Indian Ocean literature, has previously lectured at the University of Reunion Island.

Her first monograph, The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation (Oxford, Peter Lang), was published in 2020. She currently teaches translation and Translation Studies at Nantes University.

Karen Fleetwood has previously translated into English Jules Verne’s Le Rayon vert (2009) and Les Forceurs de blocus (2011), both published by Luath Press, Scotland.

Carolina Schutti is an acclaimed Austrian author who lives in Innsbruck, where she was born in 1976.

Her award-winning work, including five novels, has been translated into seventeen languages.

She has also published a poetry collection, and several works for radio and theatre.

She recently translated one of British writer Jen Calleja’s long-form poems into German for Dust Sucker (2023).

Tanja Maljartschuk, born in Ivano-Frankivsk (1983), is an acclaimed contemporary Ukrainian writer with three novels and several collections of short prose and poetry to her name.

She now writes in German as well as Ukrainian, and her work has been translated into more than ten languages.

Her most recent awards are the Theodor Kramer Prize for writing in Resistance and Exile (2023) and the Usedom Literature Prize (2022).

Zenia Tompkins is an American literary translator and the founder of the Tompkins Agency for Ukrainian Literature in Translation (TAULT).

Her previous work includes the English translation of Maljartschuk’s A Biography of a Chance Miracle (2018).

Deirdre McMahon was Highly Commended in the John Dryden Literary Translation Awards, 2020, for her translation of Eulen fliegen lautlos, a 2015 novella by Carolina Schutti.

McMahon’s first book-length translation was the children’s book, Nobody Can Stop Don Carlo (2020).

Born Eugene Rutherford Watters in 1919, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc built a reputation as an innovative stylist in both Irish and English. Ó Tuairisc’s work includes poetry, drama, short stories, novels, essays and lectures in Irish and English.

His best-known novels are L’Attaque (1962), Dé Luain (1966) and An Lomnochtán (1977). His poetry collections include The Week-End of Dermot and Grace (1964), Lux Aeterna (1964), Rogha an Fhile (1974), and Dialann sa Diseart (1981, with Rita E. Kelly). Ó Tuairisc also wrote a number of plays, including Na Mairnéalaigh, Cúirt an Mhéan Oíche, Lá Fhéile Mhichíl, An Hairyfella in Ifreann and Fornocht do Chonac.

An inaugural member of Aosdána, he died in 1982 and is buried in his native town, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.

Mícheál Ó hAodha is an acclaimed poet and translator from Galway in the west of Ireland who writes in the Irish language. He has written poetry, short stories, journalism and academic books on Irish social history, particularly relating to Travellers, the Irish working-class experience, and the Irish who emigrated to Britain.

Mícheál is also an accomplished translator: recent acclaimed translations from the Irish include: Seán Ó Ríordáin: Life and Work by Seán Ó Coileán (Mercier Press, 2018); Exiles by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh (Parthian, 2020); and This Road of Mine by Seosamh Mac Grianna (Lilliput Press, 2020).

He is a part-time lecturer in the departments of History and Comparative Literature at the University of Limerick.

www.michealohaodha.com