Jeremy Tiang (Mentor: Literature from Taiwan)
Jeremy Tiang is a fiction writer, playwright, and the translator of over thirty books from Chinese, including novels by Yan Ge, Huang Chong-Kai, Yan Lianke, Zhang Yueran, Shuang Xuetao and Yeng Pway Ngon. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize, and his play Salesman之死 won an Obie Award for Outstanding New Play. He is the co-editor with Dr Kavita Bhanot of Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in New York City.
(c) Qingshan Wang
Paul Russell Garrett (Mentor: Danish)
Paul is a working-class translator from Danish and Norwegian to English. Acclaimed translations include Lars Mytting’s The Sixteen Trees of the Somme and Christina Hesselholdt’s Vivian. His work with Foreign Affairs theatre company, winner of the Stage International Award 2026, has helped make collaboration a key part of his practice. As well as numerous co-translations, he engages in a range of mentorship and translator training programmes. Paul serves on the committee of the UK Translators Association as their CEATL delegate, and teaches Danish, theatre and translation at a number of UK institutions. Originally from Vancouver, Paul now calls London home.
(c) Adrian Pope
Jamie Lee Searle (Mentor: Swiss German)
Jamie Lee Searle translates from German and Portuguese into English and is a co-founder of the Emerging Translators’ Network. After graduating, she worked as an in-house translator for Reuters, then did an MA in Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary University in London, where she also taught. Her recent publications include a translation of Kim de l’Horizon’s award-winning Blood Book, and a co-translation of Angela Merkel’s memoirs, Freedom. She is currently working on Gerti Tetzner’s rediscovered East German novel, Karen W., for Fig Tree. Jamie lives and works in Winchester, where she runs a Royal Literary Fund community reading group.
(c) Sophie Kandaouroff
Elena Pala (Mentor: Italian)
Elena translates from Italian and French. Since taking part in the mentorship programme herself in 2019-2020, she has gone on to translate five novels and contributed to several anthologies of literature in translation, such as the Italian Cultural Institute’s Book Pride showcasing yet untranslated authors. Recent titles include Beatrice Salvioni’s The Cursed Friend for HarperVia and Rimini by Pier Vittorio Tondelli for Sceptre. Her first book-length translation, The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi, has been shortlisted for the TA’s first translation prize and the John Florio prize, and adapted for radio by John Retallack for BBC radio3. Elena has been an ETM mentor since 2023.
Jonathan Reeder (Mentor: Dutch)
Jonathan Reeder, a native of New York and longtime Amsterdam resident, enjoys a dual career as performing musician and literary translator. After many years as an orchestral bassoonist, he now translates contemporary Dutch and Flemish fiction and nonfiction, as well as opera surtitles, programme notes and essays on classical music. His published work – some twenty-five titles – includes authors both from Flanders (Tom Lanoye’s Cardboard Boxes, Roger Van de Velde’s Crackling Skulls and Bram Dehouck’s Sleepless Summer) and The Netherlands (Martin Michael Driessen’s Rivers and The Pelican, Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost and Michel Krielaars’ The Sound of Utopia).
(c) Ruud van Odenhoven
Clare Richards (Mentor: Korean)
Clare Richards is an award-winning translator from Korean. A previous mentee of Anton Hur during the 2020-21 programme, she has since translated works by Kang Hwagil, Lim Solah, Kim Keum Hee and others. Clare has a particular interest in the intersection between disability and translation, and is passionate about making literary translation more accessible as a field. After stints in London and Seoul, she now lives in a little cottage in the Nottinghamshire countryside. @clarehannahmary // clarerichards.crd.co
(c) Queenie Pun
Rosie Hedger (Mentor: Norwegian)
Rosie Hedger was born in Scotland and completed her MA (Hons) in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with a distinction in Norwegian. Rosie spent a year at the University of Oslo, taking courses in Norwegian language and literature and researching for her dissertation on contemporary Norwegian fiction. Since completing her studies, Rosie has also lived in Sweden and Denmark, and is now based in the UK.
Rosie’s translation of Gine Cornelia Pedersen’s Zero was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2019, and her translation of Agnes Ravatn’s The Bird Tribunal won an English PEN Translates Award in 2016. Ravatn’s novel was later selected for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, broadcast in January 2017, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.
(c) Joseph Munzer
Sean Gasper Bye (Mentor: Polish)
Sean Gasper Bye is a translator from Polish, focusing on literary fiction and nonfiction. His translations have won the EBRD Literary Prize and the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize; and been shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, a National Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize and the National Translation Award. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow and Translator-in-Residence at Princeton University. He is Director of Membership and Development for the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), having previously served as Interim Executive Director. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Randl Bye
Mohini Gupta (Mentor: Languages of India)
Dr Mohini Gupta is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. She has a D.Phil. (PhD) from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford.
She has been a Charles Wallace India Trust Translator-Writer Fellow hosted by Literature Across Frontiers at the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and a Translator-in-Residence at the Sangam House International Writers’ Residency in Bangalore, India. Her publications range from co-edited academic volumes to children’s book translations, including the Hindi translation of Vikram Seth’s poetry collection Beastly Tales from Here and There.
She is on the Board of Trustees at the National Library of Wales, and the Executive Committee of the Bhartiya Anuvad Parishad (Translators’ Association of India).
(c) Mallika Dua
