A novel translated by UEA research student Jen Calleja has been longlisted for this year’s Dublin Literary Award Novels in Translation Prize. The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann was published in Germany in 2017 and is the first of Poschmann’s novels to be translated into English. It was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019. Jen is currently studying for her PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA. Her debut collection of poetry, Serious Justice, was published by Test Centre in 2016, followed by the pamphlet Hamburger in the Archive, which was published by If A Leaf Falls Press in 2019. I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For, her debut collection of short stories, was recently published by Prototype. As a translator from German, she has translated over sixteen novels and was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library.
Jen Calleja longlisted for Dublin Literary Award Novels in Translation Prize
