Kris Best

Academic & literary translator (🇩🇪), editor & writer from 🇨🇦
Focus on public policy, social sciences, history, literature

[Kris Best @KrsBest]

My new business cards are here / Die neuen Visitenkarten sind da!

If you're looking for a freelance translator (🇩🇪>🇬🇧) or English editor with a focus on public policy, history, and social sciences, get in touch! 👇🏻

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[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

What happens when foreign policy is conducted on a group chat
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[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

👀 You have got to be kidding me.

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[Kris Best @KrsBest]

SO proud of this translation and our awesome collaboration. To many more! 🍻❤️

[Jantar Publishing @JantarBooks]

The best selling book of 2024 (by a very long way)

WINTERBERG'S LAST JOURNEY
by @jaroslavrudis
translated by @KrsBest

Available from selected bookstores in the UK, Ireland, EU and North America or online postage-free from

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[Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n]

Paläste, würde Winterberg sagen. /cc @jaroslavrudis

[Mike Jantar @MikeJantar]

Fabulous

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Thanks for picking up Winterberg, hope you enjoy it!!! @jaroslavrudis @JantarBooks

[stu the reader @stujallen]

Two arrivals a search for a lost love on a train and mourning a lost breast

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Two beauties straight from @JantarBooks that I can’t wait to read! Check out and order the new, Winterberg’s Last Journey by @jaroslavrudis and trs. by @KrsBest, here: https://t.co/wVWgdQEPXx

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Thank you @ModernNovel for the lovely review! ❤️ We're happy to hear that you enjoyed it! @jaroslavrudis @JantarBooks

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Latest on my website: @jaroslavrudis' Winterberg’s Last Journey about a 99 yr 0old man looking for his past, himself & his lost love in Central Europe https://t.co/gl7o4mTdBi tr. @KrsBest from @JantarBooks

[Jaroslav Rudiš @jaroslavrudis]

„… the beautiful landscape of battlefields, cemeteries and ruins ...“

Winterberg: The Beautiful Landscape

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At the London launch party for Winterberg’s Last Journey by @jaroslavrudis

Published by the great @JantarBooks

A good discussion of Hapsburg nostalgia and railway connections (amongst other things)

[John Paul Newman @johnpaul_newman]

I'm reading it this now...it's brilliant, a wonderful, funny excavation of Central Europe's past and present... so many points of entry and departure across history .. the translation by Kris Best is excellent - great work from @JantarBooks making this available in ENG!

[Jantar Publishing @JantarBooks]

OMG!

[Jaroslav Rudiš @jaroslavrudis]

Winterberg & Winterberg in London
Out now: Winterberg‘s Last Journey
Translated by Kris Best
Published by Jantar Publishing 
#bahnzeit

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UK/ EU PUBLICATION DAY, TODAY !!!!

'European history being retold as a beautiful tragicomedy' @spectator

'An abiding and romantic affection for the history of European railways', @TheTLS

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'European history being retold as a beautiful tragicomedy' @spectator

'An abiding and romantic affection for the history of European railways', @TheTLS

WINTERBERG'S LAST JOURNEY
by @jaroslavrudis
Translated by @KrsBest

Published on 1 July 2024 https://t.co/LD7pI3ijZd

[Jantar Publishing @JantarBooks]

Jaroslav Rudiš: Everything is connected in Central Europe https://t.co/BSnXHB9zpd

@jaroslavrudis speak s with @Ian_Willoughby @RadioPrague about Trains, Beer, History and Central Europe and how all is connected...

[Kris Best @KrsBest]

Winterberg's Last Journey comes out July 1, pre-order it here! 📚 https://t.co/zvfrCAk0Hs

[Kris Best @KrsBest]

My translation of Winterberg's Last Journey by @jaroslavrudis has been reviewed in @spectator! 😍
Read it here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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[Jantar Publishing @JantarBooks]

HISTORY NOVELS 3/3

'Compelling, melancholy, highly comic...' -

WINTERBERG'S LAST JOURNEY
By Jaroslav Rudiš
Translated by Kris Best

Ranging from the late 19th Century to COVID with bonus trains, love, death and beer.

Available for pre-oder from https://t.co/khmyyPPy38