Stefanie Jacobs

Stefanie Jacobs (born 1981) trained as a bank clerk before studying literary translation in Düsseldorf, specializing in English and French. As a freelance translator, she translated works by Lauren Groff, Jonathan Safran Foer, Edna O’Brien, Miranda July, Nick Cave and Neil Young into German. Her translations, including works by K-Ming Chang, Lisa Halliday and Ben Marcus, received several awards, including the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize.