Jamie Lee Searle
After having studied German at the University of Exeter, and translating in-house for Reuters, Jamie Lee Searle then completed an MA in Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, for which her thesis on Timothy Garton Ash and his contribution to the understanding of the GDR in the UK was awarded with the 2010 Jethro Bithell Award.
She has worked as a freelance literary translator since 2007, and has taught German language and literary translation modules as an associate lecturer at Queen Mary, as well as at the Birkbeck translation summer school. She is a co-founder of the Emerging Translators Network, and a former committee member of the UK Translators Association. Jamie Lee Searle divides her time between London and Florianópolis in southern Brasil.