Alan Robinson grew up in the north-east of England and, after Wanderjahre in Oxford, Lancaster and Cologne, has lived since 1990 in north-east Switzerland, where he is Professor of English at the University of St Gallen.
He has published widely on British and North American literature and on German and German Swiss authors. He was selected to take part in the New Books in German Emerging Translators Programme, has contributed reviews and translations to 12 Swiss Books and The Swiss Riveter, and was winner of the 2018/19 GINT Translation Prize. (2019)
Winter 2019 (Issue 14), The Imperial Hotel
Winter 2018 (Issue 13), Those Present