Ralf Rothmann (author), Shaun Whiteside (translator) author biography, plus links to books by Ralf Rothmann (author), Shaun Whiteside (translator).

Ralf Rothmann (author), Shaun Whiteside (translator)

Ralf Rothmann was born in 1953 in Schleswig and grew up in the Ruhr valley. He has received numerous awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize in 2013, the Hans Fallada Prize in 2008, and the Max Frisch Prize in 2006. He lives in Berlin.

Shaun Whiteside is a Northern Irish translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature. He has translated many novels, including Manituana and Altai by Wu Ming, The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink, and Magdalene the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger, which won him the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation in 1997.

This biography was last updated on 08/08/2017.

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