Description: Natasha Lehrer is a prize-winning writer, translator and editor. Her long form journalism and book reviews have appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Haaretz, and Fantastic Man, among others. She has contributed to several books, including most recently Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism, edited by Jo Glanville (Short Books (UK) 2021/Norton (US) 2022). She is…
Natasha Lehrer is a prize-winning writer, translator and editor. Her long form journalism and book reviews have appeared in the Guardian , the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement , The Nation, Haaretz, and Fantastic Man, among others . She has contributed to several books, including most recently Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism, edited by Jo Glanville (Short Books (UK) 2021/Norton (US) 2022). She is literary editor of the Jewish Quarterly .
Her co-translation (with Cécile Menon) of Suite for Barbara Loden won the 2016 Scott Moncrieff translation prize. She was a finalist for the 2017 Albertine Prize, the 2017 French American Foundation Translation Prize and the 2018 Wingate Prize. The White Dress received a 2020 French Voices award and was longlisted for the Believer 2021 fiction prize. Memories of Low Tide was shortlisted for the 2020 Scott Moncrieff translation prize. The Last Days of Ellis Island was shortlisted for the 2021 French Amer
She won a Rockower award for journalism in 2016. In 2017 she was a jury member for the JQ–Wingate Literary Prize.