Irina Kappelhof-Costea (1978, Bucharest) studied English and Romanian Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest before studying General Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. She started work as a subtitling editor in Romania, translated her first book and then moved to the Netherlands and since 2007 she has been translating for European institutions from an ever-widening array of languages. Living in Antwerp has given her the opportunity to fall in love with Flemish literature, so one of her great hopes is to be able to someday transpose the dark, dry humour of Dimitri Verhulst into Romanian, where his books would probably feel right at home.