Shaun Whiteside

Shaun Whiteside (born 1959) is a Northern Irish translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature. He has translated many novels, including Manituana and Altai by Wu Ming, The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink, Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq, and Magdalene the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger, which won him the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation in 1997.[1][2][3] Since May 2021, he has served as the president of the European Council of Literary Translators' Associations.[4]

  1. ^ Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation - Past Winners, The Society of Authors, 2013, retrieved 9 April 2013
  2. ^ Cultures in Translation - Shaun Whiteside, Goethe-Institut, 2013, retrieved 9 April 2013
  3. ^ Staudt, Kaitlin (29 March 2011), iProust: Shaun Whiteside on the art of translation, Verso Books, retrieved 10 April 2013
  4. ^ CEATL: Who we are - Executive committee, 15 May 2021, retrieved 23 February 2023