Dora HeldtDora Heldt was born in 1961 on the North Sea island of Sylt, where she trained as a bookseller. She works as sales representative for a book publisher and lives in Hamburg. Her novel Vacation with Dad (forthcoming from AmazonCrossing) was one on Germny's bestseller list for 61 weeks. Translator Jamie Lee Searle is a freelance translator and reviewer of German-language literature for publications such as New Books in German. She lives in London and teaches German language and translation. Her thesis on Timothy Garton Ash was awarded with the 2010 Jethro Bithell Award, and she recently co-founded the publishing collective And Other Stories, which seeks to promote and publish international literature in translation in the UK. Read More Read Less