The Fire Within

McGill, Rachael: - Rachael McGill is a playwright for stage and radio, prose writer and translator of novels and plays from French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies and online. She has translated four books for Dedalus: The Desert and the Drum and Saara by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk, Co-wives, Co-widows by Adrienne Yabouza and The Fire Within by Touhfat Mouhtare. Her translation of The Desert and the Drum and Co-wives, Co-widows were shortlisted for The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Her first novel Fair Trade Heroin was published by Dedalus.