Lena M\u00fcller was born in 1982 in Berlin where she works as a freelance literary translator and radio play author. After graduating from high school in 2002, she worked in France before she started studying literary writing and culture journalism at the University of Hildesheim. Later she studied adult education and cultural mediation in Paris. In 2013 she was a scholarship holder of the Georges-Arthur-Goldschmidt Programme for young literary translators. M\u00fcller has translated numerous French novels into German including Fiston Mwanza Mujilas \u201eTram 83\u201c (in cooperation with Katharina Meyer) and Shumona Sinhas \u201eErschlagt die Armen\u201c as well as Sinhas second novel \u201eKalkutta\u201c. She was awarded the International Literature prize for Translated Contemporary Literatures of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt for her translation of \u201eErschlagt die Armen\u201d. Together with Katharina Meyer she received the 2017 International Literature Prize for the translation of \u201eTram 83\u201c.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lena M\u00fcller was born in 1982 in Berlin where she works as a freelance literary translator and radio play author. After graduating from high school in 2002, she worked in France before she started studying literary writing and culture journalism at the University of Hildesheim. Later she studied adult education and cultural mediation in Paris. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7635,"template":"","categories":[8],"class_list":["post-7564","eventkrake_artist","type-eventkrake_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-translator"],"yoast_head":"\n