Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction

James Young

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James Young is the translator of the novels The Love of Singular Men and Glória by the late Brazilian author Victor Heringer (the latter in a co-translation with Sophie Lewis). The Love of Singular Men was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and shortlisted for the ALTA First Translation Prize, won the 2024 Jabuti Prize for Best Brazilian Novel Published Abroad, and was runner-up for the Translators Association/Society of Authors First Translation Award. His translations of Victor Heringer's short stories and personal essays have appeared in Granta and Grand Journal. He also translates in many other areas, including academic and scientific papers, film subtitles, art writing and journalism – he is currently a translator for Sumaúma, an Amazon-based trilingual news platform led by the Brazilian writer and thinker Eliane Brum, and was the interim editor of the English language section of the Folha de São Paulo newspaper in 2015. His own fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals, most recently The Stinging Fly, and been shortlisted for the Sean O'Faolain, Wasafiri, Fish & Bath short story awards. He lived in Brazil between 2005 and 2017, where, as a foreign correspondent, he wrote for Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, The Observer, The Independent and others. He was the winner of the 2022 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize.