Jamie Bulloch

Jamie Bulloch is a British historian and translator of German literature.

Life and work

After studying modern languages at Bristol University, he obtained an MA in Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) and followed up with a PhD in interwar Austrian history, in which he was supervised by Martyn Rady. He taught German language and Central European History at SSEES, UCL, King's College London and Warwick University, and he has written a book on Karl Renner in the 'Makers of the Modern World' series.[1]

Recent literary translations include Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes (MacLehose Press), which has been longlisted for the 2016 IMPAC award, Raw Material by Jörg Fauser (Clerkenwell Press), and Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm (Vintage). His translation of Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman was praised by the Times Literary Supplement.[2] He and his wife, Katharina Bielenberg, jointly translated Daniel Glattauer's hit novel, Love Virtually, and its sequel, Every Seventh Wave, both of which were adapted into radio plays starring David Tennant and Emilia Fox. His translation of The Mussel Feast won the 2014 Schlegel-Tieck Prize.[3]

Jamie and Katharina live in London with their three daughters.[4]

Bibliography

As author

As translator

Jointly translated with Katharina Bielenberg

Awards

References


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