Ina Rilke

Ina Rilke is a Mozambique-born translator who specializes in translating Dutch literature and French literature into English.

Born in Mozambique, she went to school in Porto in Portugal, attending Oporto British School. She studied translation at the University of Amsterdam, where she later taught.

Writers she has translated include Hafid Bouazza, Louis Couperus, Hella Haasse, W. F. Hermans, Arthur Japin, Erwin Mortier, Multatuli, Cees Nooteboom, Connie Palmen, Pierre Péju and Dai Sijie. Rilke has won the Vondel Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Flemish Culture Prize. She has also been nominated for the Best Translated Book Award, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the IMPAC Book Award.

Selected translations Multatuli, Max Havelaar – New York Review Books Otto de Kat, News from Berlin – MacLehose Press, 2013 Adriaan van Dis, Betrayal – MacLehose Press, 2012 Hella S. Haasse, The Black Lake – Portobello Books, 2012 Otto de Kat, Julia – MacLehose Press, 2011 Cees Nooteboom, The Foxes Come at Night – MacLehose Press, 2011 Hella S. Haasse, The Tea Lords – Portobello Books, 2010 Louis Couperus, Eline Vere – Archipelago, 2010 Judith Vanistendael, Dance by the Light of the Moon – SelfMadeHero, 2010 Erwin Mortier, Shutterspeed – Harvill Secker, 2007 W. F. Hermans, The Darkroom of Damocles – Harvill Secker, 2007 W. F. Hermans, Beyond Sleep – Harvill Secker, 2006 Dai Sijie, Mr Muo and his Travelling Couch – Chatto & Windus, 2005 Pierre Péju, The Girl from the Chartreuse – Harvill, 2005 Adriaan van Dis, My Father's War – Heinemann, 2004 Erwin Mortier, My Fellow Skin – Harvill, 2003 Tessa de Loo, A Bed in Heaven – Arcadia, 2002 Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Chatto & Windus, 2001 Erwin Mortier, Marcel – Harvill, 2001 Oscar van den Boogaard, Love's Death – Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001 Arthur Japin, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi – Chatto & Windus, 2000 Hafid Bouazza, Abdullah's Feet – Headline Review, 2000 Connie Palmen, The Friendship – Harvill, 2000 Cees Nooteboom, Roads to Santiago – Harvill, 1997 Margriet de Moor, The Virtuoso – Picador, 1996 Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story – Harvill, 1993