Charlotte Collins studied English literature at Cambridge University, and worked as an actor and radio journalist in Germany and the UK before becoming a literary translator. Her translation of A Whole Life by the Austrian author Robert Seethaler, for which she was awarded the 2017 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize and the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. She has also translated Seethaler’s The Tobacconist, and is currently working on Benedict Wells’s The End of Loneliness and Nino Haratischwili’s award-winning family saga The Eighth Life.