Anne Thompson Melo

Anne Thompson Melo studied Dutch and German at Hull and wrote a PhD on GDR children’s literature whilst living in the GDR, Germany and Austria. Since then, she has worked as a commercial translator. She was longlisted for the John Dryden Translation Prize in 2022 and shortlisted for the Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation in 2023. Winning the 2024 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize gave her the opportunity to work on her first literary translation.