Will Firth
Will Firth, born 23 May 1965 in Newcastle, Australia, is a literary translator who focuses on contemporary writing from the Serbo-Croatian speaking countries and Macedonia.
He graduated in German and Russian from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1986. He won a scholarship to read South Slavic studies at the University of Zagreb in the 1988–89 academic year and spent a further postgraduate year at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow in 1989–90. Subsequently, he qualified as a translator from Croatian, German, Macedonian and Russian with the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters in Australia. Since 1991 he has been living in Germany, where he works as a freelance translator of literature and the humanities. He translates from Russian, Macedonian, and all variants of Serbo-Croatian into English, occasionally into German. In 2005-07 he worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Since the mid-2000s, Firth has largely been translating works of South Slavic literature. He is a member of the professional associations of translators in the UK and Germany.- Anya's Diary, children's novel by Dimitar Baševski, Slovo, Skopje, 2007
- Der große Koffer, collection of short stories by Ivan Dodovski, Edition Erata, Leipzig, 2008
- Pirey, novel by Petre M. Andreevski, Pollitecon Publications, Sydney, 2009
- Das Buch der Mutter, novel by Luan Starova, Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt, 2010
- Hansen's Children, novel by Ognjen Spahić, Istros Books, London, 2011
- The Coming, novel by Andrej Nikolaidis, Istros Books, London, 2011
- Stolen Thoughts, bilingual collection of poetry by Dušan Ristevski, Macedonian Literary Association “Grigor Prlichev”, Sydney, 2011
- Our Man in Iraq, novel by Robert Perišić, Istros Books, London, 2012, and Black Balloon Publishing, New York City, 2013
- A Handful of Sand, novel by Marinko Koščec, Istros Books, London, 2013
- The Storm in the Still Life, epistolary novel by Ivan B. Vodopija, Ex Libris, Zagreb, 2013
- The Son, novel by Andrej Nikolaidis, Istros Books, London, 2013
- The Sunrise in My Dream, bilingual collection of poetry by Ivan Trposki, Macedonian Literary Association “Grigor Prlichev”, Sydney, 2013
- Ekaterini, novel by Marija Knežević, Istros Books, London, 2013
- The Great War, novel by Aleksandar Gatalica, Istros Books, London, 2014
- Das achte Weltwunder, novel by Jordan Plevneš, Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig, 2015
- Homunculus, novel by Aleksandar Prokopiev, Istros Books, London, 2015
- Till Kingdom Come, novel by Andrej Nikolaidis, Istros Books, London, 2015
- Quiet Flows the Una, novel by Faruk Šehić, Istros Books, London, 2016
- Journey to Russia, travelogue by Miroslav Krleža, Sandorf, Zagreb, 2017
- Head Full of Joy, collection of short stories by Ognjen Spahić, Dalkey Archive Press, Victoria, 2018
- Mothers and Daughters, novel by Vedrana Rudan, Dalkey Archive Press, Victoria, 2018
- The Eighth Wonder of the World, novel by Jordan Plevneš, Plamen Press, Washington, D.C., 2020
- A Novel of London, novel by Miloš Crnjanski, Diálogos, New Orleans, 2020
