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Alison Layland, MITI


I am a skilled freelance translator, specialising in literary translation. I provide quality translations from German, French and Welsh into English, and am a member of the Society of Authors’ Translators Association.


With almost 30 years’ professional translation experience, and as a published novelist and short story-writer, I have the proven skills to convey literary works that require close attention to the author’s voice.


I won the Translators’ House Wales – Oxfam Cymru 2010 Translation Challenge with the translation of a short story by Haitian author Yanick Lahens, and was subsequently commissioned to translate the novel The Colour of Dawn (La Couleur de l’Aube) by the same author. I took part in the Translation Challenge again in 2012 for the fascinating 26 Treasures project, with my translation of a poem by Tony Bianchi appearing in the beautiful book that accompanied it.


To find out if I can help you with your translation needs, please email me on info@alayland.uk

Some of my published translations:


Madness Came with the Rain by Yanick Lahens