Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn works as a British writer, editor, and translator who brings Portuguese and Spanish-language literature into English. He co-edited Lunatics, Lovers and Poets with Margarita Valencia for the four-hundredth anniversary of the deaths of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare. The anthology gathers twelve contemporary stories commissioned in dialogue with the two writers, six inspired by Cervantes and six by Shakespeare. Indigo identifies Hahn and Valencia as editors, Salman Rushdie as introduction writer, and And Other Stories as publisher. The Guardian independently describes how the editors commissioned writers across the two language traditions. Hahn’s wider career includes prize-winning translation and editorial work, giving the project a practical understanding of how stories move between cultures. Lunatics, Lovers and Poets is collaborative rather than a single-author collection, and its contributors reinterpret familiar figures and motifs instead of retelling canonical plots. Readers encounter both a literary commemoration and a lively experiment in international exchange.