Fiona Graham

Fiona Graham is a multilingual literary translator with a first-class BA Honours degree in German and French from Oxford University and an MA in General Linguistics from Reading University. Having started her career as a translator at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has also worked as a linguist at the European Parliament and the European Commission.

She has translated seven works of non-fiction to date: Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives (Het recht van de snelste) by Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet from Dutch; and six Swedish books, including Elisabeth Åsbrink’s English Pen award-winning '1947: When Now Begins'; Torill Kornfeldt’s 'The Re-Origin of Species', ranked fourth among the 'Daily Telegraph'’s books of the year (2018); and Elin Anna Labba’s 'The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow', a unique collage of texts reimagining the experiences of Northern Sámi people forcibly displaced from their homeland in the 1920s and 1930s.

Fiona’s literary translations and book reviews have also appeared in 'Asymptote', 'Words Without Borders', the 'European Literature Network', 'New Books in German', the 'Baltic Sea Library', 'No Man’s Land' and the 'Swedish Book Review'. In 2024 she was the runner-up for the Goethe-Institut’s New Translation Award (UK).

She particularly loves translating challenging literary works that place high demands on linguistic creativity, imagination and empathy.