David Colmer was born in Adelaide in 1960. He studied medicine but left after a few years to travel. In the early nineties he moved to Amsterdam, where he learnt Dutch and became a literary translator. He translates poetry, novels, plays and children’s literature and has published more than twenty book-length translations. He has twice won the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize. Besides translating, he also writes and has published short stories in literary magazines in Australia and Europe. A novel and a short story collection have been published in the Netherlands in Dutch translation.
David Colmer
Recent translations include:
The Twin - Gerbrand Bakker (published by Scribe, Melbourne)
