Jen Calleja

Biography

Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator based in Hastings. She is the author of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation (a Guardian Book of the Day), Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode (5-stars, The Telegraph; released in French translation) and the novel Vehicle (a Granta Book of the Year). She was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize 2020 and longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experiment in Text 2020.

As a translator of German-language literature, she has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2020 and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2018, and was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library. Her authors include Dorothee Elmiger, Michelle Steinbeck, Gregor Hens and Marion Poschmann.

She’s currently working on her second novel.