Rachael McGill

Rachael McGill is a playwright for stage and radio, prose writer and translator of novels and plays from French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies and online.

She has translated two books for Dedalus:The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk and Co-wives, Co-widows by Adrienne Yabouza. Her translation of The Desert and the Drum was shortlisted for The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and her translation of Kerstin Specht's play Marieluise won the Gate Theatre/Allied Domecq translation prize.

Fair Trade Heroin is her first novel.

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