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Nino Haratischvili is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and theatre director. At home in two different worlds, each with their own language, she has been writing in both German and Georgian since the age of twelve. In its German edition, The Eighth Life was a bestseller, and won the Anna Seghers Prize, the Lessing Prize Stipend, and the Bertolt Brecht Prize 2018. It is being translated into many languages and has already been a major bestseller on publication in Holland, Poland, and Georgia.

Helen Day is a British narrator living in West Hollywood. Her performing career has encompassed many genres of acting across all mediums and has included work as a professional puppeteer and circus artist. Before beginning her career, she studied English literature at the University of Sussex, so it is perhaps only natural that her performance credentials include audiobook narration.

Ruth Martin has a Ph.D. in German literature and philosophy from the University of London. Her recent translations include Volker Weidermann’s Dreamers, Michael Köhlmeier’s novels Two Gentlemen on the Beach and Yiza, short fiction by Joseph Roth, and essays by Hannah Arendt. She has taught translation to undergraduates at Birkbeck and the University of Kent and is currently co-chair of the Society of Authors Translators Association.