Peabody Ink is run by Dr Kat Hall. Kat offers services to writers, academics, journals, magazines, publishers, and cultural bodies in and beyond the UK –
- Translation (GER>ENG) – literature, culture, politics, publishing, academia
- Editing, copy-editing, proofreading
- Consultancy – reader reviews, TV/film
Kat’s expertise and experience –
- German to English translator
- member of The Society of Authors and The Translators Association
- 25 years of editing / copy-editing academic and cultural texts
- manuscript editor for Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
- translating and editing crime fiction
- editor of Crime Fiction in German and crime fiction reviewer
- BA in English and German (first-class hons), Southampton University
- PhD in German studies, Southampton University
- Honorary Research Associate in Modern Languages, Swansea University
Kat’s clients include –
- BBC Radio Four
- BBC World Service
- Brown University
- CrimeFest
- De Gruyter Verlag
- Fischer Verlag
- Frankfurt Book Fair
- Goethe-Institut London
- John Murray Press
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
- Marcel Hartges Literatur- und Filmagentur
- Mystery Tribune
- Newcastle Noir
- New Books in German
- Peter Lang Publishing
- Piper Verlag
- Swansea University
- University of Wales Press
- Working Title TV
Currently translating –
Recent projects –
- translations of literary samples for German publishers
- translations of pieces by Esther Dischereit, Nino Haratischwili, Terézia Mora, Ferdinand von Schirach, Saša Stanišić
- translations for the Frankfurt Magazine (Frankfurt Book Fair)
- comparative edit of German thriller in English translation (KiWi Verlag)
- translations of chapters for Kniesche (ed.), Contemporary German Crime Fiction
- translations of Frankfurt Book Fair press releases
- translations of German publisher catalogues for London Book Fair
- editing work for academic journals
- reader reports for publishers and New Books in German
Please get in touch via the contact page for further information and rates.
