Jackie Smith studied German and French at Selwyn College, Cambridge, then undertook a post-graduate diploma in translation and interpreting at the University of Bradford.

In 2015 she was selected for the New Books in German Emerging Translators Programme and in 2017 won the Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize. An Inventory of Losses is her first literary translation.

Jackie Smith
An Inventory of Losses
An Inventory of Losses

An Inventory of Losses

By
Judith Schalansky
Translated by
Jackie Smith
Published by
MacLehose Press
With an engaging intensity of feeling, Judith Schalansky's strange and wonderful book pays elegant homage to past beauty now lost to this world. Translated by Jackie Smith.