Saskia Drude

Born in 1968, Saskia Drude studied Baltic and Slavic linguistics as well as translation. She lived in Lithuania from 1995 to 2005 and completed postgraduate studies at Vilnius University. From 1997 onward, she worked as a freelance translator from Lithuanian. Among the authors whose works she translated are Tomas Venclova, Juozas Erlickas, Sigitas Parulskis and Kristina Sabaliauskaitė. In 2017, she received Lithuania’s Hieronymus Translator’s Prize for her book translations. From 2009 to 2014, she also worked as a translator for the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels.