Shaun Whiteside has translated over 50 books from German, French, Italian and Dutch, including novels by Amélie Nothomb, Luther Blissett, Wu Ming and Marcel Möring. His translations of Freud, Musil, Schnitzler and Nietzsche are published by Penguin Classics, and his translation of Magdalena the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger won the 1996 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize.
A former chair of the Translators Association, he sits on the editorial board of New Books in German and the Advisory Panel of the British Centre for Literary Translation, where he regularly teaches at the summer school. He lives in London with his wife and son.

• Recent book translations :
2016 (Nov), Maigret Takes a Room – Inspector Maigret #37 (Penguin)
2016 (June), Black Water-Lilies , Michel Bussy (Orion)
2016 (May) My Friend Maigret , (Penguin)
2016 (May), Football (Fitzcarraldo) , Jean-Philippe Toussaint