Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with sixty-something books to his name. His work has won him the International Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among many others. Books include The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature and the translation of José Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion and The Book of Chameleons. He is a past Chair of the Society of Authors.
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