S2E01: Sarah Timmer Harvey "Human connection is what separates us from the machines"

Kyo Gerrits from the INCREC project interviews Sarah Timmer Harvey. Sarah is a translator and writer currently based in Woodstock, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York and a BA from Southern Cross University. Sarah’s translation of Jente Posthuma’s novel What I’d Rather Not Think About was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2024. In that same year, she published a translation of Thistle, a novel by Nadia de Vries. She’s also translated Reconstruction, stories written by the Dutch-Surinamese writer Karin Amatmoekrim. In the coming year, Sarah's translation of Jente Posthuma's critically acclaimed debut, People with No Charisma, will be published. She’s also translated a lot of Dutch-language poetry and fictions in different reviews, magazines and elsewhere. Born in Australia, Sarah lived and worked in the Netherlands for 14 years before moving to New York City in 2013.