Jutta Himmelreich

Jutta Himmelreich studied Romance studies, American studies and ethnology in Frankfurt, Tucson, Arizona, and Paris. She worked as a freelance translator, interpreter and lecturer in German, English, French, Spanish and Persian. Her work has focused on promoting and disseminating literature from the Global South. In 2020, she received the International Literature Prize, awarded by Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Stiftung Elementarteilchen, together with five other translators.