Iain Galbraith was born in Glasgow in 1956, and studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg, and Mainz, where he taught for several years. He has edited works by Stevenson, Hogg, Scott, Boswell, and Conrad, and contributed essays to many books and journals in the UK, France, and Germany. He is a widely-published translator of German-language writing, especially poetry, into English, winning the John Dryden Prize for Literary Translation in 2004.