Anna Leader was born to American-British parents and raised in Luxembourg. Her renditions of poems by Jules Laforgue and Jan Wagner were awarded joint first place in the Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation in both 2013 and 2015. Leader’s poetry, plays and novels have been recognized three times with first prize in Luxembourg’s Concours national littéraire.
Anna Leader’s translation of ‘Real Men’ by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is the winner of the 2019 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize.
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