Elizabeth Heighway

Translator of Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry

Elizabeth Heighway translates fiction, non-fiction and poetry from Georgian and French. Her translation of The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili was longlisted for the 2021 Booker International Prize and Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize. She lives in Birmingham, UK.