Miriam Mandelkow

Miriam Mandelkow, born in Amsterdam in 1963, studied English and American Studies in Hamburg and the United States. After working for several years as an editor, she turned to literary translation from English; since 1998, she has translated works by authors including James Baldwin, Samuel Selvon, Richard Price, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Eimear McBride, David Vann and NoViolet Bulawayo. In 2020, she received the Helmut M. Braem Translation Prize for her new translation of James Baldwin’s novel Von dieser Welt. In 2025, she was awarded the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize.