Lara Ehrenhofer (born in 1988) grew up in Zurich, Berkeley and Berlin and is a native speaker of both German (including Swiss German) and English. Having started to dabble in translation at the age of sixteen, she began pursuing it more seriously in 2006. In October 2007, she embarked on the first year of her bachelor’s degree in English and French Literature at Merton College, Oxford. (2007)