I studied French and German at McGill University, graduating with first class joint honours and winning the Swiss Ambassador’s Prize for German. Thanks to a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service), I also spent a semester studying Weimar literature and contemporary philosophy at the University of Regensburg.
After university I went into the insurance and investment business, working first as a salesman, then as a writer and editor. I endured for fifteen years, which is about the same amount of time I would have spent in prison for second degree murder, served without the satisfaction of having killed someone.
In late 2010, I chucked up everything and returned to the two subjects that have always appealed to me, namely language and literature. I now earn my living translating books and other documents from French and German into English. This occupation is well suited to my temperament, and I enjoy both the autonomy and the variety.
