Astrid Alben
Commissioning Editor of Literature in Translation @Prototype Publishing
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WORK HISTORY
Commissioning Editor of Literature in Translation @Prototype Publishing
London, GB
EDUCATION
The University of Edinburgh
Master's degree
SKILLS
ABOUT ASTRID ALBEN
Astrid Alben is a poet, editor and translator. Her debut collection Ai! Ai! Pianissimo came out with Arc Publications in 2011. Plainspeak was published in 2019 by Prototype Publishing. Her poems, essays and reviews are featured in a wide range of publications, including in The Times Literary Supplement and Poetry Review. Astrid has worked in advertising, at Wieden & Kennedy, as head of production for Saatchi & Saatchi Amsterdam and as a curator for Vedute in Amsterdam and New York. Alben is the co-founder, joint CEO and artistic director of the arts and sciences initiative PARS. She has curated and edited the Findings on… series published by Lars Müller Publishers and curated site-specific events that are a mixture of theatre, art installation and scientific experiment. More recently Alben was acting CEO of the Poetry Translation Centre, where she is a trustee. She has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship, Rijksakademie Fellowship, Hosking Houses Fellowship, Clore Fellowship and Royal Society of Arts Fellowship.
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