Sally-Ann Spencer

Sally-Ann Spence
Born
Sally-Ann Spence

(1970-05-15)May 15, 1970
United Kingdom
EducationUniversity of Oxford
OccupationsScience educator, entomologist, farmer, presenter
Known forFounder of Minibeast Mayhem; founder of Berrycroft Hub; co-founder of Dung Beetle UK Mapping Project
AwardsBritish Entomological & Natural History Society Gold Medal (2023)

Sally-Ann Spencer (born May 15, 1970) is a British translator, specialising in German literature. She studied languages at Cambridge University before going to work in the publishing industry. In 2005, she moved to New Zealand, at the same time choosing literary translation as her full-time profession. She completed a PhD on German literature at the Victoria University of Wellington.

As a translator, Spencer has won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Frank Schätzing's sci-fi novel The Swarm. She now lives in Wellington.

In 2015, Sally-Ann Spence was awarded the inaugural Women in German Studies Book Prize for her book proposal on 'Contemporary German-English Translation: Books Across Borders in the Digital Age'.

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