Siân Valvis

Siân Valvis is a British-Greek literary translator working from Greek, Russian, French and Portuguese. She was the recipient of the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translator Mentorship in 2020. Her first book, the transadaptation Kolobok (Fontanka, 2021), won a PEN Translates award. Valvis’s work has since been shortlisted for the John Dryden Prize and the AAWP Translation Prize. She is currently based in Sao Paulo.