Judith Schwaab

Judith Schwaab (born 1960) studied Italian philology and worked as an editor and translator from English and Italian. Authors whose works she translated include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anthony Doerr, Daniel Mason, Sue Monk Kidd and Stefania Auci. In 2020, she received the International Hermann Hesse Prize for her translation of Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus.