Julia Sherwood was born and grew up in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. After studying in Germany, she settled in the UK. Since 2008, she has worked as a freelance translator of fiction and nonfiction from Slovak, Czech, Polish and Russian. She is based in London and serves as the editor-at-large for Slovakia for Asymptote.
MORE FROM THE TRANSLATOR
Fiction
The Bureaucrat’s Day
by Balla
While buying some “superb” illegally produced sausages, a bureaucrat tries to come to terms with the thing that lives in his office.
Fiction
Dervish
by Weronika Gogola
In this short story, like in a bad dream, we are plunged from daily life to wandering a strange town, hoping for a route back.
Fiction
In Front of the Mirror
by Marek Vadas
This short story by Marek Vadas offers a portrait of a town which is unable to confront its complicity in crimes of the past or crimes of the present.
