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Alexander Starritt was born half-Scots, half-German in 1985, and grew up in the Scottish north-east. Educated in Edinburgh and at Oxford, he translates fiction, poetry and academia from German, including Stefan Zweig's A Chess Story. His debut novel, THE BEAST, was published by Head of Zeus in 2017. His second novel, WE GERMANS, was published in August 2020 by John Murray Press in the UK and in September 2020 by Little, Brown US. In October 2021 Alexander Starritt was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
He reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, the Spectator and the Mail on Sunday, and his short fiction has been shortlisted for the Paris Literary Prize.
