Meet the Summer School faculty

Sawad Hussain

Workshop Leader

Sawad Hussain is a PEN Award-winning translator from the Arabic. She has been shortlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize and the National Book Award for Translation, and longlisted for the Moore Prize in Human Rights Writing, among others. A former co-chair of the Translators' Association in the UK, Sawad has also served as a judge for the Palestine Book Awards and the 2023 National Translation Award. She has run translation workshops under the auspices of Shadow Heroes, Africa Writes, Shubbak Festival, the Yiddish Book Center, the British Library and the National Centre for Writing. In 2024, she became the first translator-in-residence for "Wasafiri", and was the Spring 2025 translator-in-residence at PIIRS, Princeton University. 

Adriana Hunter

Workshop Leader

Award-winning translator Adriana Hunter spent four years in a French school as a child and studied French & Drama at the University of London. Since ‘discovering’ the first book she was to translate, she has brought more than 100 books to English-language readers and still enjoys the buzz of finding promising new francophone authors. Her recent work includes the international sensation Ubac and Me by Cédric Sapin-Defour and four volumes of Sapiens: A Graphic History based on Yuval Noah Harari’s global phenomenon, Sapiens. She relishes the challenges of translating anything from intricate literary fiction to the goofy antics and word games of Asterix and Obelix. . 

Jen Calleja

Workshop Leader

Jen Calleja has translated over twenty works of German-language literature by authors including Wim Wenders, Marion Poschmann and Gregor Hens. She has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library. Her latest translation is Favorita by Michelle Steinbeck (Faber Books, 2025), and she is currently working on a translation of Dorothee Elmiger's novel The Dutch Women (Granta Books, 2027), which won both the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize. Her experimental memoir Fair: The Life-Art of Translation was a Guardian Book of the Day. Her other books include Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode (Rough Trade Books, 2024; forthcoming in French translation), Vehicle: a verse novel (Prototype, 2023) and Dust Sucker (Makina Books, 2023, bilingual edition with a German translation by Carolina Schutti). Jen is co-publisher at Praspar Press and teaches creative writing at Goldsmiths and for the Granta Writers' Workshop. 

Clare Richards

Workshop Leader

Clare Richards is an award-winning translator of Korean literature. She has translated books by Kang Hwagil, Lim Sol-A, and Kim Keum Hee, amongst others, and is particularly interested in works about disability and the social margins. Clare has attended the BCLT Summer School twice, in 2020 and 2023, then led the Korean workshop strand in 2024 and 2025. A previous mentee of Anton Hur, she is now a mentor for the NCW Emerging Translators Mentorship programme. In her spare time, she's often found crocheting, reading, or gardening in her countryside cottage. 

Ranjit Hoskote

Workshop Leader

Ranjit Hoskote (born Bombay, 1969) is a poet, translator, cultural theorist and curator. He is the author of more than 30 books, ranging across poetry, art criticism, cultural history and translation. His collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006), Central Time (Penguin/ Viking, 2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton, 2018; in the UK as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs by Arc, 2020, which received a Poetry Society Special Recommendation), Hunchprose (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton, 2021), and Icelight (Wesleyan University Press and Penguin/Hamish Hamilton, 2023). Hoskote has translated the poetry of the 14^th-century Kashmiri woman mystic Lal Ded as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011) and the poems of the 18^th-century Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir as The Homeland’s an Ocean (Penguin Classics, 2024). He is also the author of a book of essays on the painter-poet Gieve Patel, To Break and To Branch (Seagull, 2024). Hoskote has taught as Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Ashoka University (2022) and serves currently on the Editorial Board of the Murty Classical Library of India, published by Harvard University Press. In his other life, in the visual arts, he has curated numerous exhibitions in India and internationally since 1993: he co-curated the 7^th Gwangju Biennale (2008) with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim, and served as curator for India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011). Hoskote has been honoured by India’s National Academy of Letters with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award, and has also received the S H Raza Award for Literature and the JLF-Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry. 

Srinath Perur

Workshop Leader

Srinath Perur translates from Kannada to English and writes on science, travel and books among other things. He is the translator of Vivek Shanbhag's Ghachar Ghochar and Sakina's Kiss, and Girish Karnad's memoirs This Life At Play. He is the author of If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai, a book on travelling with groups. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, Nature, n+1 and Granta. He lives in Bengaluru. 

Małgorzata Rejmer

Author

Małgorzata Rejmer, born in 1985 in Warsaw, is an award-winning Polish writer and reporter. She is the author of the novel Toksymia, the short story collection The Burden of Skin, and two non-fiction books: Bucharest: Dust and Blood and Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania. She has received numerous awards, including the Polityka Passport, the Kościelski Award, the Newsweek Award, the Arkady Fiedler Award, and the TVP Kultura Culture Guarantee, among others. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages

Laia Jufresa

Author

Laia Jufresa is a Mexican author based in Scotland. Her first novel, Umami, was translated into nine languages. The English version, translated by Sophie Hughes, won a PEN Translates Award and was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Awards in 2016. In 2015, Laia was invited to be the first-ever International Writer in Residence at the Hay Festival in Wales. In 2023, she published her first nonfiction book, Veinte, veintiuno, and was awarded the Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals to complete her second novel. Wishbone is her first book written in English and is forthcoming in six languages in 2026/2027. She translated it into Spanish herself. Laia’s work has been featured in Vogue, El País, Netflix, and the BBC. She has been named one of the most outstanding young writers in Latin America (Bogota39), and since 2020 she has led a thriving online community for women writers called Escribir es un lugar (Writing Is a Place). 

Ekin Oklap

Workshop Leader

Ekin Oklap was born in Turkey, grew up in Italy, and lives in London. She translates from Turkish and Italian. Her translation of Orhan Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award, and her translations of Pamuk's The Red-Haired Woman and Nights of Plague were shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize. Her latest translation to be published from Turkish is Pamuk's Memories of Distant Mountain. Her debut novel, FIRST SUMMER, will be published by Summit in the US and UK in Summer 2026. 

Juana Adcock

Juana Adcock, born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, is a poet writing in both English and Spanish. She is the author of Manca (Tierra Adentro, 2014), Vestigial (Stewed Rhubarb, 2022), and Split (Blue Diode, 2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and I Sugar the Bones (Out-Spoken Press, 2024). She is co-editor of the anthology Temporary Archives: Poetry by women of Latin America (Arc, 2022) and translator of Laura Wittner’s Translation of the Route (Bloodaxe/PTC, 2024) and Hubert Matiuwaa’s The Dogs Dreamt. She performs regularly at literary festivals in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Rosalind Brown

Rosalind Brown was born in 1987, grew up in Cambridge, and now lives in Norwich. Her first novel Practice was published in 2024 and was included in Slate’s ‘Ten Best Books of 2024’, as well as Books of the Year lists in the TLS, NPR, and Lit Hub.  Her work has also been published in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Ambit, and the anthology Best British Short Stories 2017 (Salt). 

Rosalind Harvey

Rosalind is a literary translator and writer. She has worked on books by many prominent Spanish-language writers, including Juan Pablo Villalobos, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Elvira Navarro and Enrique Vila-Matas; her translation of Guadalupe Nettel’s Still Born was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize and was the winner of the 2025 Jan Michalski Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Arts Foundation Fellow, and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Network. She is based in Coventry, and is currently writing a creative non-fiction book that examines literary translation through a personal, psychotherapeutic lens. 

Janani Ambikapathy

Janani Ambikapathy was born and raised in Chennai. She was awarded her PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. Her recent poetry pamphlet If Not Theirs was published by Veer2. Her poems, essays and translations have appeared at the Poetry Foundation, Lana Turner, Circumference Magazine, Firmament, Modernism/modernity and elsewhere. She is the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation.

Bella Bosworth

Bella Bosworth is a freelance editor and occasional translator. She studied Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and was an editor at Penguin Random House for six years. Since going freelance, she has worked as an editor and copy-editor for And Other Stories, Picador, Little, Brown, Transworld and Puffin, and was the runner-up in the TA First Translation Award for her editorial work on Norah Lange’s People in the Room (with translator Charlotte Whittle). Her first translation appeared on Asymptote, where she has also reviewed translated literature and worked as a blog editor. 

Jason Grunebaum

Jason Grunebaum's translations from Hindi include Uday Prakash’s The Girl with the Golden Parasol, The Walls of Delhi, and, with Ulrike Stark, Manzoor Ahtesham’s The Tale of the Missing Man. He has been awarded the Global Humanities Translation Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a PEN/Heim Translation Grant. He teaches Hindi language and literary translation at the University of Chicago, and is co-director of the SALT Project to support and promote South Asian literature in translation.

Madeleine Rogers

Madeleine Rogers is an editor, proofreader, bookseller and literary translator. She studied French and Italian at the University of Oxford and holds an MA in Translation Studies from UCL. Her translations of Nolwenn Le Blevennec’s novels As the Eagle Flies and Friends and Lovers were published by Peirene Press in 2023 and 2025 respectively. She lives in Margate.

Sonakshi Srivastava

Sonakshi Srivastava is a senior writing fellow (ELT) at Ashoka University, the translations editor at Usawa Literary Review, and an educational arm assistant at Asymptote. Her writings have generously been supported by the PEN English x SALT Translation Grant, 2024 ASLE Translation Grant, Poetry HUES Foundation, Director’s Fellowship (Martha’s Vineyards Institute of Creative Writing), Diverse Voices Fellowship, and the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts. Her words may be found at Tendon Magazine, fingerfood mag, WritingWomen, Usawa Literary Review, The Locavore, The Alipore Post, ASAP/Art, The Bilingual Window, Potluck Zine, Hakara, etc. She is a former translation fellow with the South Asia Speaks programme.

Rory Williamson

Rory Williamson is a Commissioning Editor at Pushkin Press. He works across the Pushkin Press and Pushkin Classics list, acquiring literary titles predominantly in translation. With Gwendolyn Harper and John Siciliano he was runner-up for the 2025 TA First Translation Prize for Pedro Lemebel’s A Last Supper of Queer Apostles. .