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 Society of Authors and Translators Association
• Twenty-five 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
• Eighteen years as lecturer / senior lecturer / associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Swansea University
• Honorary Research Associate in Modern Languages, Swansea University

Kat’s clients include – 

• Academics and authors
• 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:

Ferdinand von Schirach’s Kaffee und Zigaretten (for John Murray Press)

Recent projects – 

• Translation: sample of Sophie Passmann’s Gänsehaut / Growing Pains (KiWi)
• Translation: sample of David Schalko’s Bad Regina / Regina Spa (KiWi)
• Book-length translation: Ferdinand von Schirach’s Strafe / Punishment (John Murray / Hodder & Stoughton, out 2021)
• Translation: sample of Hans Fricke’s Out and About in the Blue Universe (KiWi)
• Translation: sample of audio piece by a German author
• Copy-editing: journal article on fin-de-siècle Vienna
• Copy-editing: journal article on the Jewry Oath (More Judaico)
• Translation: pieces by Nino Haratischwili, Terézia Mora, Saša Stanišić (p. 22)
• Translation: conference paper on Ernst Toller’s speeches in exile
• Translation: Frankfurt Magazine articles (Frankfurt Book Fair)
• Translation: journal article on Volker Kutscher’s crime fiction
• Comparative edit: German thriller in English translation (KiWi Verlag)
• Translation: chapters for Kniesche’s Contemporary German Crime Fiction
• Copy-editing: journal article on political activism in 1980s West Germany
• Translation: Frankfurt Book Fair press releases
• Translation: German publisher catalogues for London Book Fair
• Reader reports for publishers and New Books in German

I love what I do. I am committed to achieving the best possible results for my clients. I am used to managing complex projects and meeting strict deadlines.

Please get in touch via the contact page for further information and rates.