British writer and translator
Natasha Lehrer is a writer and literary translator. She was born inLondon and studied atOxford University and theUniversité de Paris VIII. Her translations have received multiple awards, and been longlisted and shortlisted for several prizes. She was the joint winner (with Cecile Menon) of the 2016Scott Moncrieff Prize for their translation ofNathalie Léger'sSuite for Barbara Loden. Her writing has appeared inThe Guardian,The Observer, theTimes Literary Supplement,The Nation,Haaretz,Frieze Magazine, Fantastic Man,The Paris Review, among other publications. She is a former judge of theJewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize.
Her translations include:
- 2022 –Our Unexpected Brothers, byAmin Maalouf (World Editions)
- 2022 –Absence, by Lucie Paye (Les Fugitives)
- 2022 –The Vanished Collection, by Pauline Baer de Perignon (New Vessel Press)
- 2021 –Consent, by Vanessa Springora (HarperCollins)
- 2020 –I Hate Men, byPauline Harmange (4th Estate)
- 2020 –Villa of Delirium, byAdrien Goetz (New Vessel Press)
- 2020 –The Last Days of Ellis Island, byGaëlle Josse (World Editions)
- 2020 –The Sailor of Casablanca, by Charline Malaval (Hodder and Stoughton)
- 2020 –The Most Beautiful Job in the World, by Giulia Mensitieri (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- 2020 –The White Dress, byNathalie Léger (Les Fugitives/Dorothy, a publishing project)
- 2019 –Memories of Low Tide, byChantal Thomas (Pushkin Press)
- 2019 –Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping, byRoger Faligot (Hurst/OUP)
- 2019 –Doves Among Hawks: Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movement, by Samy Cohen (Hurst/OUP) (with Cynthia Schoch)
- 2018 –The Survival of the Jews in France, byJacques Semelin (Hurst/OUP) (with Cynthia Schoch)
- 2018 –A Call for Revolution, by theDalai Lama (Penguin Random House) (with Georgia de Chamberet)
- 2018 –The Sacred Conspiracy, byGeorges Bataille et al (Atlas Press)
- 2017 –The Punishments of Hell, byRobert Desnos (Atlas Press)
- 2016 –Equipée: Journey to the Land of the Real, byVictor Segalen (Atlas Press)
- 2015 –Suite for Barbara Loden, byNathalie Léger (Les Fugitives/Dorothy, a publishing project) (with Cécile Menon)
She lives inParis with her husband and three children.[1]
