Hans Jürgen Balmes

Hans Jürgen Balmes

Hans Jürgen Balmes was born in Koblenz in 1958, was an editor at Amman Verlag (1989-1997), where works by Wole Soyinka and Nuruddin Farah where being published at the time. After taking a sabbatical, he moved to S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt, as publishing director of international literature and co-editor of Neue Rundschau. He has been involved in working on a new translation of Chinua Achebe’s works, on books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi, Sharon Dodua Otoo and in 2022 Warsan Shire.