Lucy Fricke

Lucy Fricke, born in Hamburg, has been awarded several prizes for her writing. She was recently a resident at the German Academy in Rome and at Ledig House, New York. Daughters is her fourth novel, and was awarded the Bavarian Book Pize in 2018. Lucy Fricke also runs HAM.LIT, Hamburg’s first live festival for young literature and music. She lives in Berlin.

Sinéad Crowe comes from Dublin. After completing a PhD in German theatre at Trinity College Dublin and working for several years as a lecturer in German Studies, she moved to Hamburg, where she began her career as a translator. Her translations include Ronen Steinke’s Fritz Bauer: The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial and Pierre Jarawan’s The Storyteller, a co-translation with Rachel McNicholl. Sinead Crowe also teaches at the University of Hamburg’s Institute of English and American Studies.