Andreas Jandl, born in 1975, studied theatre arts, English and French Literature in Berlin, London and Montréal. He works as a literary translator from French and English into German and has translated texts by Nicolas Dickner, David Diop, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Mike Kenney, Maaza Mengiste and Gaétan Soucy, among others. In 2021 he was awarded the Eugen Helmlé Translator’s Prize for his life's work.