Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison (b. 1972) is a literary translator from Dutch and French into English and a former commissioning editor for various top publishing houses. She has translated more than fifty books from Dutch and three from French. Recent literary translations include We Are Light by Gerda Blees (shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award), Fall, Bomb, Fall by Gerrit Kouwenaar, ‘Under The London Sky’ by Anna Woltz, and The Edges by Angelo Tijssens.

In 2020, Michele won the Vondel Translation Prize for her translation of Stage Four by Sander Kollaard and the International Booker Prize together with author Lucas Rijneveld for The Discomfort of Evening.  In 2023, she won the inaugural Sophie Castille Award for graphic novel translations for The Philosopher, The Dog and The Wedding by Barbara Stok. In 2025, she shared the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction with Lucas Rijneveld for My Heavenly Favourite.

She is also co-author of ‘The Happiest Kids in the World: What We Can Learn from Dutch Parents’ and author of the poetry pamphlet ‘The North Wind’.

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