Stacey Knecht
Stacey Knecht is an award-winning translator. She primarily translates literary works from the Czech and Dutch languages into English.
She won the James S. Holmes Translation Award for her translation of Back to the Congo by Lieve Joris, and the inaugural Vondel Prize for her translation of The Great Longing by Marcel Möring. She was also a runner-up for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for her translation of Harlequin’s Millions by Bohumil Hrabal.
In addition to her translation work, Stacey has been an avid teacher of Dutch as a second language, and remedial teacher, since 2010. She lives in The Hague, in the Netherlands.
