About The Author
DANIEL HAHN is an award-winning translator, writer and editor. His translations include a wide range of fiction and non-fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas, as well as many children's books and plays. He is the author of Catching Fire: A Translation Diary, the editor of the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, and co-editor with Padma Viswanathan of the forthcoming Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories. He is currently translating an Angolan novel.