Ulrike Kretschmer

Ulrike Kretschmer (born 1968 in Leipzig) earned a doctorate from the University of Münster in English and German philology and art history. After working as an editor for a publishing house, she became a freelance editor, ghostwriter, and translator. She translates fiction and nonfiction, including Helen Macdonald’s “H Is for Hawk” and “Vesper Flights.” In 2010, she received the CORINE Award in the Focus Zukunftspreis category for her translation of William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer’s “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.”