Tamsin Black was born in Kent and received her early education in Tunbridge Wells.  After a brief flirtation with Latin and Greek at Oxford, she opted instead for Modern Languages at King’s College London where she was awarded various prizes and scholarships, graduating in 1990 with First Class Honours in French with Spanish (Distinction).  Five years working at the Rothschild Archive London, with its prodigious range of languages, was enough to persuade her where her interests really lay, and she left when she won her first contract to translate a book.  Since then, she has worked almost exclusively in translation, additionally editing and producing reports for publishers on potential translation material as well as on other translators’ work.  Tamsin moved to Grenoble in the summer of 2000 moving again in 2002 to Switzerland where she lives in a village in the Canton of Bern with her husband.