{"id":2448,"date":"2016-09-29T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_author&#038;p=2448"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:45:54","slug":"lucy-jones","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/artist\/lucy-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucy Jones is a British-born translator who has lived in Berlin since 1998. She has translated novels by Brigitte Reimann, Anke Stelling, Silke Scheuermann and Theresia Enzensberger, among others. For ten years, she curated the Fiction Canteen reading series. Her own writing has appeared in <em>SAND<\/em>, <em>STAT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>REC<\/em>, <em>Pigeon Papers NYC<\/em>, <em>3AM Magazine<\/em> and <em>LitroMag<\/em>. In spring 2026, Lucy Jones receives a residency grant of the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Essays \/ creative non-fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/statorec.com\/magic-carpets-muddy-sticks-and-shit-hills-a-memoir-in-the-making-by-lucy-jones\/\">\u2018Magic Carpets, Muddy Sticks, And Shit Hills: A Memoir In The Making\u2019<\/a> in STAT\u00aeREC, February 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/mother-and-child-doing-fine\/\">\u2018mother and child doing fine\u2019<\/a> in 3AM Magazine, August 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pigeonpagesnyc.com\/overwintering\">\u2018Overwintering\u2019<\/a><strong> <\/strong>in Pigeon Pages NYC, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/sandjournal\/docs\/sand_issue_14-for-issuu\">\u2018Inclusion\u2019<\/a><strong> <\/strong>in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/sandjournal\/docs\/sand_issue_14-for-issuu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Sand Journal<\/em><\/a>, Issue 14, Nov 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordswithoutborders.org\/read\/article\/2016-06\/from-the-translator-schernikaus-quiet-radicalism-lucy-renner-jones\/\">\u2018Schernikau\u2019s Quiet Radicalism\u2019<\/a> in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordswithoutborders.org\/read\/article\/2016-06\/from-the-translator-schernikaus-quiet-radicalism-lucy-renner-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Words Without Borders<\/a>, June 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandjournal.com\/product\/issue-11\/\">\u2018Delirium\u2019<\/a> in <em>Sand Journal<\/em>, Issue 11, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Selected Translations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Siblings<\/em>, Brigitte Reimann, Penguin\/Transit Books, London\/San Francisco (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Higher Ground<\/em>, Anke Stelling, Scribe UK &#038; Australia (2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Blueprint<\/em>, Theresia Enzensberger, Little, Brown, London (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Hour Between Dog and Wolf<\/em>, Silke Scheuermann, Seagull Books, London (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I Have No Regrets<\/em>: Diaries 1955-1963, Brigitte Reimann, Seagull Books, London (2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Jones is a British-born translator who has lived in Berlin since 1998. 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