Marshall Yarbrough

Translator from German

Brooklyn, New York, United States

About

Translator from German to English. Recent translations include: Nonfiction: Tripped by Norman Ohler (Mariner, 2024) Light in the Darkness by Heino Falcke, with Jörg Römer (Harper Via/Wildfire, 2021 The Bohemians by Norman Ohler (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 -- with Tim Mohr) It's the World's Birthday Today by Flake (Rare Bird, 2020) Fiction: Text for You by Sofie Cramer (Penguin, 2022) The Radio Operator by Ulla Lenze (HarperVia, 2021) Self-Portrait with Russian Piano by Wolf Wondratschek (FSG, 2020) Children's: Ludwig and the Rhinoceros by Noemi Schneider, Illustrated by Golden Cosmos (NorthSouth, 2023) -- named a USBBY International Book of the Year Jitterbug by Kai Lüftner, Illustrated by Wiebke Rauers (NorthSouth, 2023) Genius Noses by Lena Anlauf, Illustrated by Vitali Konstantinov (NorthSouth, 2023) The Little Bad Book 1-3 by Magnus Myst, Illustrated by Thomas Hussung (Delacorte, 2022-23)

Experience

  • Translator (German to English) at Freelance
    Jan 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 7 mos

    I've translated such authors as Gregor von Rezzori, Wolf Wondratschek, and Anna Katharina Hahn and have worked with such publishers as New York Review Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. My translations of short fiction have appeared in Two Lines Journal, American Chordata, and N+1.

  • Foreign Rights Manager at Waxman Leavell Literary Agency
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2017 · 3 yrs

  • Assistant Music Editor at The Brooklyn Rail
    Jan 2013 - Dec 2017 · 5 yrs

  • Associate at Teri Tobias Agency
    Feb 2011 - Jan 2017 · 6 yrs

  • Bookstore Associate at powerHouse Arena
    Jul 2011 - Apr 2012 · 10 mos