Alida Bremer

Alida Bremer is a writer, literary translator, editor, and cultural mediator between southeast Europe and the German-speaking world. She studied theory of literature, romance studies, Slavic studies, and German studies, and she earned her PhD in cmparative literature. Her essays, columns, articles, stories, and poems appear in newspapers, magazines, and online (including Der Spiegel, Lettre International, Schreibheft, Zeit Online, Die Horen, and Manuskripte) and have been translated into multiple languages. She is the author of the autobiographical novel Oliva’s Garden and Split, a nominee for the Alfred Döblin Prize. For her literary translations, she was awarded several prestigious German prizes, including the Internationaler Literaturpreis in 2018. For more information, visit www.alida-bremer.de/english.