Max Lawton

Max Lawton is a writer, musician, and translator. He iscurrently working in close collaborationwith Vladimir Sorokin to publish all of his untranslated works in English. His translation of Michael Lentz'sSchattenfrohwas one of the mot anticipated English-language titles of 2025. Max is also currently working on or has plans to translate works by Antonio Moresco, Stefano D'Arrigo, Alberto Laiseca, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eduard Limonov, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Miquel de Palol. His first novelProgressis coming out with Verso in 2027. His translations have appeared inThe New Yorker,n+1,Harper's,The Baffler,The White Review, andJoyland. He lives in Los Angeles, where, when he isn't writing, he plays heavy metal and noise music.