Jana Grohnert, born 1988 in Wesel, Germany, is a freelance translator from English and German into German and English. She translates fiction for adults and children, and occasionally poetry. She is currently a PhD candidate in Literary Translation Studies at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she is particularly interested in the translation of bilingual literature. She also holds a Master's degree in Intercultural Communication and Applied Translation from the same university. 
After leaving school, Jana lived in Namibia and South Africa for a number of years and completed a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics and Spanish at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She moved to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2012 and has been living and working there ever since. She has a keen interest in contemporary New Zealand literature and creative writing. Excerpts of her translations into English have been published in Landfall (New Zealand) and Specimen (Switzerland). She is currently a member of the VdÜ and the NZSTI. 

Previous Work

Emily Joe, Katzen können Geister sehen. 2022. Aracari.