S3E03: Annelies de Hertogh & Els de Roon Hertoge “We discuss translation problems until we agree on the best solution and that’s where we are the most creative.”

<p>Annelies de hertogh (1977) has a Master’s Degree in Translation and translates Russian, English and German literature into Dutch. Els de Roon Hertoge (1973) has a Master’s Degree in Slavonic Studies and translates Russian and English literature. They met in 2013 during a translation project where Annelies was the translator and Els the editor. They worked so well together that they decided to continue collaborating as a duo for Russian and English literature.</p><p>They have translated works by the Polish-Russian absurdist writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the Soviet-Russian humorist Sergey Dovlatov, the German-British experimentalist Isabel Waidner and the American surrealist ‘Dorothea Tanning, among others. From 2020 to 2024 they worked on their biggest translation project to date: the monumental war novel Stalingrad by Vasili Grossman, the prequel of the equally monumental novel Life and fate. For this translation they were awarded the Filter Translation Prize in 2025.</p><p>They are currently finishing the translation of a third collection of stories by their favorite Russian author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and have begun working on the translation of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.</p><p>For more information, you can visit Els and Annelies’ website: www.hertog-hertog.nl</p>