Martin Chalmers Author, Translator & Editor

Sherko Fatah was born in East Berlin and grew up there before moving to West Germany. The Dark Ship is his fourth novel. Martin Chalmers (1948–2014) was a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He translated some of the best-known German-language writers, including Herta Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.