Irmela Erckenbrecht

Irmela Erckenbrecht, born in Kassel in 1958, studied English at the universities of Göttingen and Bristol. She began working as a literary translator in 1984 and became a freelance book author in 1994. She wrote books on cooking, nutrition, and gardening and translated from English, including works for women, children, and young adults as well as books by Michael Frayn, Edna O’Brien, Vita Sackville-West, and Jane Smiley. In 1995, she received the Lower Saxony Literature Promotion Award.