Nikolaus Hansen

Nikolaus Hansen, born in Hamburg in 1951, worked for many years as a publisher at Rogner & Bernhard, Rowohlt, marebuchverlag and Arche/Atrium. He was a co-founder and organiser of the Harbour Front Literature Festival in Hamburg and worked as an author and translator. His translations included works by Joseph Conrad, Edward St Aubyn, Willy Vlautin, Kamila Shamsie, Lionel Shriver, Robbie Arnott and James Hanley. As a young man, Hansen spent two years sailing around the world.