Katy Derbyshire is a translator from German to English, born in London and based in Berlin for many years. She has translated writers including Clemens Meyer, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Inka Parei, Dorothee Elmiger, Simon Urban, Helene Hegemann and Selim Özdogan. Katy blogs at love german books and In which I go out drinking with German writers Photo: (c) Anja Pietsch