Martin Chalmers grew up in Glasgow. After many years in Birmingham and London, he now lives in Rixdorf in Berlin. Book translations include work by Herta Mueller, Erich Fried, Hubert Fichte and Alexander Kluge as well as The Diaries of Victor Klemperer. Recently published are translations of Hans Magnus Enzensberger under the titles The Silences of Hammerstein and (with Esther Kinsky) A History of Clouds.