Background
Whiteside was born in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland in 1959.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Shaun Whiteside
Edit Profile
Education
He graduated with a First in Modern Languages at King"s College, Cambridge. After he finished his studies, he worked as a business journalist and television producer before translating full-time.
Career
As he said in a brief interview, "Did I always want to be a translator? I certainly wanted to do something that involved travel and languages, but even when my work in television took me to far-off places, I kept coming back to translation, first for fun, and eventually as a way of earning a living." Whiteside is the former Chair of the Translators Association of the Society of Authors. He has stated that he would like to "have a go at Uwe Tellkamp"s Der Turm (The Tower), a massive great project but a worthwhile one.".
Achievements
-
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, 1990 Lenin"s Brain by Tilman Spengler, 1993 The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1993 Magdalene the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger, 1997, winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation Payback by Gert Ledig, 2002 Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher, 2004 Mourning, Murder and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud, 2005 Manituana by Wu Ming, 2009 Altai by Wu Ming, 2013 Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski, 2015.
