New Writing

Olivia Hellewell is a translator from Slovene to English of literary fiction, children's fiction, and non-fiction in the field of arts and culture. Her recent projects include Goran Vojnović’s prize-winning family saga The Fig Tree (Istros Books, 2020), which was selected by World Literature Today as one of 75 Notable Translations of 2020, and the picture book Felix After The Rain (Tiny Owl, 2020) by the Trieste-based author and illustrator Dunja Jogan. She was the BCLT’s translator in residence in 2020-21.