Paula

Sandra Hoffmann was born in 1967 and lives in Munich, where she teaches creative writing and writes for the radio. For her 2012 novel Was ihm fehlen wird, wenn er tot ist (‘What he will miss when he’s dead’), she received the Thaddäus Troll Prize, followed by the Hans Fallada Prize for Paula. Sandra Hoffmann was writer-in-residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School in 2018.Katy Derbyshire was born in London and has lived in Berlin for over twenty years. She is an award-winning translator of contemporary German writers, including Olga Grjasnowa, Angela Steidele and Clemens Meyer. Having taught literary translation in New York, New Delhi and Norwich, she now co-hosts a monthly translation lab and the bi-monthly Dead Ladies Show in Berlin. Katy is the publisher of the V&Q Books imprint.Katy Derbyshire is a translator, writer and editor based in Berlin for three decades. She translates contemporary German writers including Judith Hermann, Clemens Meyer and Inka Parei, and co-hosts a monthly translation lab. Her most recent publication is Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Mountainish, published by Prototype and shortlisted for the inaugural John Calder Translation Prize. Katy is the publisher of the V&Q Books imprint.

'Sandra Hoffmann is one of Germany’s most exciting contemporary writers. [...] An incredibly dense, finely woven text that immediately grabs you and pulls you mercilessly in.' Brigitte Woman