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Place of Birth: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
About Will Firth
- Will Firth, born 23 May 1965 in Newcastle, Australia, is a literary translator who focuses on contemporary writing from the Serbo-Croatian speaking countries and Macedonia. He graduated in German and Russian (with Serbo-Croatian as a minor) from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1986 (BA).
- He won a scholarship to read South Slavic studies at the University of Zagreb in the 1988-89 academic year and spent a further postgraduate year at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow in 1989-90.
- Subsequently he qualified as a translator from Croatian, German, Macedonian and Russian with the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) in Australia.
- Since 1991 he has been living in Germany, where he works as a freelance translator of literature and the humanities.
- He translates from Russian, Macedonian, and all variants of Serbo-Croatian into English, occasionally into German.
- In 2005-07 he worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
- Since the mid-2000s, Firth has largely been translating works of South Slavic literature.
- He is a member of the professional associations of translators in the UK (Translators Association) and Germany (VdÜ).
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