Born in 1969, Franziska Zwerg studied Slavic philology, German literature and Theater studies in Berlin and Moscow. Besides some translations of poems from Russian into German, she translated among others the novels Ich bin Tschetschene by German Sadulajew, Milch und Honig by Vladimir Lortschenkow and Der Himmel auf ihren Schultern by Sergei Lebedev, as well as Permafrost by Viktor Remizov in 2025.