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My Chequered Europe

Melitta Breznik

Translated by Charlotte Collins

‘A Europe of different languages, landscapes and cultures, all of which have retained their characters.’ Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins.

Melitta Breznik

Melitta Breznik was born in Austria in 1961. After working as a general practitioner and psychiatrist, her writing career began in 1995 with Nachdienst, which has been translated into several languages.

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Translated by Charlotte Collins

Charlotte Collins is the co-chair of the UK Translators Association and a literary translator from the German. Her translation of Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Her co-translation, with Ruth Martin, of The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili will be published by Scribe UK in November 2019. Homeland by Walter Kempowski is available now.

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