Career
Antonia Lloyd-Jones translates both fiction and non-fiction, including reportage, literary biographies and essays. She read for a Bachelor in Russian and Ancient Greek at the University of Oxford and then went on to study Polish independently. She edited a Polish-language magazine put out by the Foreign Office before she started translating literature in 1988.
She also translates poetry and books for children, including illustrated books, novels and verse.
She takes part in translation conferences, public readings, and literary festivals. She has been a mentor for the British Centre for Literary Translation"s mentorship programme annually since 2012.
She is currently Company-Chair of the Translators’ Association of the Society of Authors. She was a judge of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
