Tag: literary translation

British translator of French, Italian and Spanish fiction. Among his translations from the Italian are books by Gianrico Carofiglio, Marco Malvaldi, Pietro Grossi, Filippo Bologna, Matteo Righetto and Fabio Geda (as well as Italian classics like Pirandello, Fenoglio and Sciascia). From French he has translated, among others, Georges Simenon and from Spanish the late Luis Sepúlveda. His translations have won and have been shortlisted for many literary translation awards.

Katherine Gregor grew up in Italy and France before going to university in England. She was a theatre director, press agent, complementary medicine practitioner and an EFL teacher before becoming a literary translator from Italian, French and, on occasion, Russian. Katherine has translated works by Alberto Angela, Stefania Auci, Marion Brunet, Roberto Tiraboschi, Marco Malvaldi, Donato Carrisi, Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Goldoni e Alexander Pushkin and many others.