Donal McLaughlin

Donal McLaughlin is an author and translator and he was featured in both capacities in Best European Fiction 2012. He has published collections of short stories with Dalkey Archive. Known for his bilingual edition of the poetry of Stella Rotenberg (“Shards”) and his translations of over 100 German-Swiss writers for the “New Swiss Writing” anthologies, he also collaborated with Chris Dolan on a stage version of “The Reader”. He is the voice of Urs Widmer in English. “My Father's Book” was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2013 in the United States.

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