About Tadzio
Tadzio Koelb is a writer, educator, translator, and freelance communications professional authoring:
• fundraising materials including LoIs, grant proposals, private gift proposals, mandatory grant reports, stewardship documents, direct mail, and e-blasts;
• institutional documents including internal and external newsletters, recruitment materials, and digital content (including websites and social media); and
• executive materials such as ghosted editorials and other articles for popular publication, talking points, and speeches.
Clients include MSF/Doctors Without Borders, ALIMA, Columbia University Medical Center, Bennington College, the Abu Dhabi Education Council, FERN, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, HIVOS, Yale Law School, and the University of New Hampshire. He also provides quality editing and translating services for museums, research institutions, private scholars, and mass-market publishers.
Tadzio's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and a number of other publications on both sides of the Atlantic. His short critical biography of Lawrence Durrell appeared in British Writers Retrospective Vol. III, and Morasses, his translation of André Gide's novel Paludes, was published in 2015. His novel, TRENTON MAKES, was published by Doubleday in the US, Atlantic in the UK, and Buchet-Chastel in France.
Traveling with his wife, a public health specialist, Tadzio has lived in Belgium, France, Spain, England, Rwanda, Madagascar, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan.
Specialties: Writing, proofreading, editing, French-English translation, education, fundraising
English
Native or bilingual
French
Fluent
Can work on-site
Saint-Gilles (up to 50km)
Experience
- FreelanceCommunications ConsultantJanuary 2010 - Today (16 years and 5 months)VariousSeasoned communications professional authoring fundraising materials including LoIs, grant proposals, private gift proposals, mandatory grant reports, stewardship documents, direct mail, and e-blasts; institutional documents including internal and external newsletters, recruitment materials, and digital content; and executive materials such as ghosted editorials and other articles for popular publication, talking points, and speeches. Clients include MSF/Doctors Without Borders, ALIMA, Columbia University Medical Center, Bennington College, FERN, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, HIVOS, the Abu Dhabi Education Council, Yale Law School, and the University of New Hampshire.
- FreelanceAuthor, editor, translator, journalistJanuary 2007 - Today (19 years and 5 months)Contribute reviews and features on books and literature to publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Literary Review, The New Statesman, Art in America and The Jewish Quarterly. Author of critical biography of Lawrence Durrell for British Writers Retrospective Vol. III. Translate and copy-edit book-length publications for a variety of clients, including Persona, a major exhibition catalogue for the Royal Museum for Central Africa, and Keep on Running: The Story of Island Records for Universal-Island Records, Ltd. Proofread single issues of scholarly publications including The Journal of Afrotropical Zoology and Africana Linguistica. Write statements and biographies for artists in New York and elsewhere. Translator of André Gide's novel Paludes.
- The New SchoolLecturer, Creative WritingOctober 2017 - May 2020 (2 years and 7 months)Greater New York City AreaSite Specific: Art Writing, MFA Writing Program Accelerated Writing Workshop, Continuing Education Program Revise and Polish: Advanced Fiction Workshop Fiction Writing
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Education
- MAWinchester School of Art1997
- MAUniversity of East Anglia2008The UK's oldest and most prestigious writing program.