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Jen Calleja

Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator. Her publications include the story collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For (Prototype), the pamphlet essay Goblins (Rough Trade Books) and the poetry collection Serious Justice (Test Centre). Her writing has appeared in Best British Short Stories 2021 (Salt), The White Review, Ambit, The London Magazine, and elsewhere. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize and longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experimental Text. Jen was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2018 for her translations from German.