Natasha Lehrer

Natasha Lehrer is a translator, journalist and literary critic who writes for the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Nation, and Ha’aretz among other publications. In 2016, she won a Rockower award for her journalism and the Scott Moncrieff Prize, jointly with Cécile Menon, for their translation of Nathalie Léger’s Suite for Barbara Loden. Her translations include Journey to the Land of the Real, by Victor Segalen, Memories of Low Tide, by Chantal Thomas, The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944, by Jacques Semelin (with Cynthia Schoch), longlisted for the Wingate Prize 2020, Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping, by Roger Faligot, and Consent by Vanessa Springora.

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Read Natasha Lehrer interviewed by Elodie Rose Barnes for Lucy Writers.
Read Natasha Lehrer interviewed by Madeleine Feeny for Words Without Borders.

‘…If the writer is good at their craft, we begin to empathise with the characters. These complex nuances are brilliantly translated by Lehrer.’
— Lucy Popescu, on The White Dress by Nathalie Léger