Claudia Kalscheuer

Claudia Kalscheuer, born in Berlin in 1964, studied Romance languages and literature, linguistics, and philosophy in Berlin and Toulouse. She worked as a translator from French from 1994 onward, translating works by, among others, Marie NDiaye, Alexander von Humboldt, Sylvain Prudhomme, and Nastassja Martin. She received the André Gide Prize in 2002 and, together with Marie NDiaye, the International Literature Prize of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2010.