Life After Forty
Dora Heldt was born on the North Sea island of Sylt, Germany. She works as a publisher’s sales representative and lives in Hamburg.Life After Fortyis the first of her German bestsellers to be published in English.Jamie Lee Searle is a freelance translator and reviewer of German-language literature for publications such asNew Books in German. She lives in London and teaches German language and translation. Her thesis on Timothy Garton Ash was awarded with the 2010 Jethro Bithell Award, and she recently co-founded the publishing collective And Other Stories, which seeks to promote and publish international literature in translation in the UK.