Rachel Ward studied modern languages at the University of East Anglia and graduated from UEA’s MA in Literary Translation in 2003. Since then, she has been a freelance translator, primarily from German, specializing in children’s and YA books as well as crime fiction, history and politics. Her translation of Zippel: The Little Keyhole Ghost by Alex Rühle was a Times Children’s Book of the Year. Other translations include The Edelweiss Pirates, with an introduction by Michael Rosen (Pushkin Press,) and The Train Mouse by Uwe Timm, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Andersen Press). She has also compiled an A-Z of children’s books in translation. [dj]