Cornelia Holfelder - von der Tann

Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann, born in 1950, studied English, German and Romance languages and literature. After completing a teacher-training traineeship in Berlin, she worked as a freelance literary translator from English and French. She translated works by authors including Marilyn French, Naomi Wolf and Tad Williams into German, with a particular interest in rendering colloquial language, Black American English, sociolects and dialects. In 2021, she received the Rebekka Translation Prize for her longstanding work as a translator.