Heidi is also a German-to-English translator with over twenty years of experience, working under the name Heidi Holzer. Her most recent translation is The Light in the West, a short crime story by the German author, Nina George, was published in the May/June 2011 issue of World Literature Today.

Set during and after German Reunification, The Light in the West is a story of love, courage, disappointment…and revenge.


Heidi Holzer is the profiled translator in the April 2011 issue of Translation Journal. Check out her essay here.

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