Short biography

Lucy Jones © Oliver Toth
Lucy Jones © Oliver Toth

Lucy Jones

Literature

March, April, May 2026

Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg

Lucy Jones is a British literary translator who has lived in Berlin for 25 years. In 2008, she founded Transfiction, a collective for translators, and curated and moderated the Fiction Canteen reading series for ten years until 2013. She has been on the board of the NFLB (Netzwerk freie Literaturszene Berlin) since spring 2025. She has translated works by Brigitte Reimann, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Anke Stelling, Silke Scheuermann, Theresia Enzensberger, and Ronald M. Schernikau, and was runner-up for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 2023. Her own short texts have been published in SAND, Pigeon Pages NYC, LitroMag, and 3 am. She is currently translating a novel by Anna Seghers (to be published by NRYB in 2026/7) and has finished writing her first book.

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