Hello. We are Julia and Peter Sherwood. We are translators of literary fiction as well as film scripts, essays, journalism, theatre plays and academic texts.

We have been together for more than 40 years, translating for many of them, together or individually. We cover a range of Central and East European languages - Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Russian.

Julia Sherwood was born and grew up in Bratislava. After a career in the non-profit sector she turned to literary translation, becoming a vocal advocate for Slovak literature in the Anglosphere. For ten years she served as editor-at-large with Asymptote, and since 2021 has curated the Slovak List for Seagull Books and in 2020-2021 she ran the series Lit_cast Slovakia for the Slovak Literary Centre. She currently administers the group Slovak Literature in English Translation on Facebook and co-curates the website SlovakLiterature.Com. In 2019 she was awarded the Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav prize for translating and promoting Slovak literature in the English-speaking world, and in 2023 she received the Slovak Minister of Culture’s award for her long-standing work in translating and promoting Slovak literature.

Peter Sherwood was an academic for over forty years, teaching at universities in London and Chapel Hill (North Carolina) and his first translations from the Hungarian appeared over fifty years ago. He has co-authored Hungarian-English and English-Hungarian dictionaries and has written for the Times Literary Supplement as well as other journals. He was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica prize of the Hungarian Republic for contributions to Anglo-Hungarian relations in 2001, the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic in 2007, the János Lotz medal of the International Association for Hungarian Studies in 2011, the László Országh prize of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English in 2016, and the Árpád Tóth Prize for Translation in 2020.