From Nowhere to Nowhere (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789533512945)

Will Firth was born in 1965 in Newcastle, Australia. He studied German and Slavic languages in Canberra, Zagreb, and Moscow. Since 1991 he has lived in Berlin, where he works as a translator of literature and the humanities--from Russian, Macedonian, and all variants of the "language with many names," aka Serbo-Croatian. In 2005-07 he translated for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Firth is a member of professional associations in Germany (Vdﾜ) and Britain (Translators Association). His best-received translations of recent years have been Aleksandar Gatalica's The Bekim Sejranovic (1972-2020) was a member of the writers' associations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Norway. In 2009, he was awarded the Mesa Selimovic Prize for the best new novel from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro for Nigdje, niotkuda. In 2011, he was screenplay writer for Japanese director Moku Teraoka's documentary From Tokyo to the Morava River - A Japanese Meets the Balkans. He lived in Ljubljana from 2011-14, and then lived and worked in Zagreb from 2015 until his untimely death in May 2020.