Charlotte Collins studied English Literature at Cambridge University and worked as a radio journalist in Germany and the UK before becoming a literary translator. She was awarded the 2017 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Picador), which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International and the International Dublin Literary Award. Her other translations include The Tobacconist, also by Seethaler, Homeland by Walter Kempowski, The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells and Stefan Weidner’s narrative essay In the Greece of the East: A Journey through Jewish Ukraine.