Andreas Tretner

Andreas Tretner, born in Gera in 1959, studied translation and interpreting for Russian and Bulgarian at Leipzig University. After working as an industrial translator in Jena, he was an editor for Slavic literature at Reclam Verlag Leipzig from 1988 to 1991. From the mid-1980s onward, he translated Russian, Bulgarian and Czech prose and poetry into German, including works by Mikhail Shishkin, Vladimir Sorokin and Viktor Pelevin. He also worked as an editor, publisher and literary critic, and co-founded a non-commercial radio station in Leipzig. His translation awards included the Paul Celan Prize in 2001 and the International Literature Award of the House of World Cultures in 2011, which he received jointly with Mikhail Shishkin.