Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn’t yet mastered the technique.
Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history.
Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany.
A propos de l’auteur
Jo Heinrich found her ideal career in her middle years, and graduated in 2018 with an MA in Translation from the University of Bristol. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize and the 2019 John Dryden Translation Competition and won the Dublin Literary Award 2023 for her translation of Marzahn, Mon Amour. She translates from French and German, and she lives just outside Bristol with her family.
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