Sarah Pybus
Sarah Pybus has been translating from German for almost twenty years. Her career in literary translation began when she was awarded first prize in the inaugural Nonfiction Translation Competition (German Book Office New York/Geisteswissenschaften International) in 2015. Since then, she has translated crime fiction, non-fiction and photography books, as well as working for universities, tourism companies, media outlets and many others. She translated Friederike Otto's first book, Angry Weather (Greystone Books, 2020), and her translation of Chemistry for Breakfast by Dr Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (Greystone Books, 2021) was nominated for the 2022 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Young Adult Science Book category. She also translated Climate Injustice by Friederike Otto, which was nominated for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing.
