Ina Rilke is a

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-born translator who specializes in translating

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and

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into English. Born in

, she went to school in

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, attending Oporto British School. She studied translation at the

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, where she later taught. Writers she has translated include

Hafid Bouazza Hafid Bouazza (, ḥafīẓ būʿazza; 8 March 1970 – 29 April 2021) was a Moroccan-Dutch writer. Born in Oujda, Morocco, Bouazza came to the Netherlands in October 1977 as a seven-year-old boy. He lived with his parents in the village Arkel, ...

Louis Couperus Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological fiction, psychological and historical fiction, historical novels, novellas, short ...

, Hella Haasse, W. F. Hermans, Arthur Japin,

Erwin Mortier Erwin Mortier (born 28 November 1965) is a Dutch-language Belgian author. Spending his youth in Hansbeke, he later moved to nearby Ghent, where he became city poet (2005–2006). He wrote as a columnist for newspapers like '' De Morgen'' and p ...

Multatuli Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin ''multa tulī'', "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel ''Max Havelaar'' (1860), which denounced the a ...

Cees Nooteboom Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel '' Rituals'' (''Rituelen'', 1980), which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his n ...

, Connie Palmen, Pierre Péju and Dai Sijie. Rilke has won the Vondel Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Flemish Culture Prize. She has also been nominated for the

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, the

Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language. The first prize was awarded in 1999. The prize is funded by and named in honour of Lord Wei ...

, the

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize The ''Independent'' Foreign Fiction Prize (1990–2015) was a British literary award. It was inaugurated by British newspaper ''The Independent'' to honour contemporary fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched i ...

, and the IMPAC Book Award.

Selected translations

, ''

Max Havelaar ''Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company'' () is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Multatuli, Eduard Douwes Dekker), which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch Ethical Policy, Dutch colonial poli ...

'' –

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* Otto de Kat, ''News from Berlin'' – MacLehose Press, 2013 * Adriaan van Dis, ''Betrayal'' – MacLehose Press, 2012 * Hella S. Haasse, ''The Black Lake'' – Portobello Books, 2012 * Otto de Kat, ''Julia'' – MacLehose Press, 2011 *

, '' The Foxes Come at Night'' – MacLehose Press, 2011 * Hella S. Haasse, ''The Tea Lords'' – Portobello Books, 2010 *

, '' Eline Vere'' – Archipelago, 2010 * Judith Vanistendael, ''Dance by the Light of the Moon'' – SelfMadeHero, 2010 *

, ''Shutterspeed'' – Harvill Secker, 2007 * W. F. Hermans, ''The Darkroom of Damocles'' – Harvill Secker, 2007 * W. F. Hermans, ''Beyond Sleep'' – Harvill Secker, 2006 * Dai Sijie, ''Mr Muo and his Travelling Couch'' –

Chatto & Windus Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his busines ...

, 2005 * Pierre Péju, ''The Girl from the Chartreuse'' – Harvill, 2005 * Adriaan van Dis, ''My Father's War'' – Heinemann, 2004 *

, ''My Fellow Skin'' – Harvill, 2003 * Tessa de Loo, ''A Bed in Heaven'' – Arcadia, 2002 * Dai Sijie, ''Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress'' – Chatto & Windus, 2001 *

, ''Marcel'' – Harvill, 2001 * Oscar van den Boogaard, ''Love's Death'' – Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001 * Arthur Japin, ''The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi'' – Chatto & Windus, 2000 *

, ''Abdullah's Feet'' – Headline Review, 2000 * Connie Palmen, ''The Friendship'' – Harvill, 2000 *

, '' Roads to Santiago'' – Harvill, 1997 * Margriet de Moor, ''The Virtuoso'' – Picador, 1996 *

, '' The Following Story'' – Harvill, 1993

References

External links

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