Andrea O'Brien
Andrea O'Brien (* 1967 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German literary translator .
Life
Andrea O'Brien studied English and German at RWTH Aachen University and Trinity College Dublin and, after a few years at Carl Hanser Verlag, completed the postgraduate course in "Literary Translation" at LMU Munich . O'Brien translates fiction and factual texts from English and has received several awards for her work, including the Translator's Grant from the Free State of Bavaria in 2016 (for her translation of the novel An almost perfect wife by Jonathan Evison) and the Munich Literature Grant 2019 for her translation of the Romans What We Know About Each Other by Jessie Greengrass .
In addition to her translation work, Andrea O'Brien gives workshops and seminars, runs a blog on which she presents English-language suspense literature that has not yet been translated into German, and she writes for the online culture magazine CulturMag .
O'Brien lives and works in Munich and is a board member of the Munich Translators' Forum . She is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.
Translations (selection)
- Michelle Obama : Becoming. Munich 2018 (with several translators)
- Jonathan Evison: An almost perfect wife. Cologne 2017 (awarded with the translation grant of the Free State of Bavaria)
- Candice Fox : Missing Boy. Berlin 2019
- Candice Fox: Redemption Point. Berlin 2018
- Candice Fox: Crimson Lake. Berlin 2017
- Benjamin Black : Death in Summer. Cologne 2016
- Benjamin Black: A woman disappears. Cologne 2012
- Harry Bingham : Fiona. The deepest grave. Hamburg 2019 (with Kristof Kurz)
- Harry Bingham: Fiona. Where the dead live. Reinbek 2018 (with Kristof Kurz)
- Harry Bingham: Fiona. When I was dead Reinbek 2017
- Joseph Knox: Smiling Man. Munich 2019
- Joseph Knox: Dirty Snow. Munich 2018
- Christopher Brookmyre : Your end. Hamburg 2019
- Gerald Seymour : Vagabond. Berlin 2017 (with Zoë Beck)
- Clare Furniss: The year after the world stopped. Munich 2014 (Awarded the German Audiobook Prize)
Web links
- Literature by Andrea O'Brien in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Andrea O'Brien , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 19, 2016
- O'Brien in the VdÜ translator database, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Andrea O'Brien receives translation grant 2016. Accessed on December 3, 2019 .
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Translation grant for Andrea O'Brien. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
- ↑ State Capital of Munich Editor: Literature grant from the State of Munich. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
- ^ Munich: Literature grants awarded. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
- ↑ German Audiobook Award 2015 in the category "Best Artist" , on deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de, accessed on December 3, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Brien, Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhelmshaven |