Kate
Roy grew up in New Zealand, obtained her PhD from the University
of Manchester, and now lives in Lugano. She researches contemporary literature
in German and French by culturally Muslim writers, and her recent academic
articles include Writing Back: Letters Home, 'European Impressions'
and Discourse Subversion in Emily Ruete and Zeyneb Hanoum (2009) and
A Multiple Otherness: Beginning with Difference in the Writing of Leïla
Sebbar (2009). She attended the 2009 BCLT Literary Translation Summer
School, and Sediment is her first solo translation.
(2009)