diff --git a/docs/source/buffs.rst b/docs/source/buffs.rst
index cca92065a..c4f831455 100644
--- a/docs/source/buffs.rst
+++ b/docs/source/buffs.rst
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ garak.buffs
    garak.buffs
    garak.buffs.base
    garak.buffs.encoding
+   garak.buffs.low_resource_languages
    garak.buffs.lowercase
    garak.buffs.paraphrase
diff --git a/docs/source/garak.buffs.low_resource_languages.rst b/docs/source/garak.buffs.low_resource_languages.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..73523e8ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/source/garak.buffs.low_resource_languages.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+garak.buffs.low_resource_languages
+=====================
+
+.. automodule:: garak.buffs.low_resource_languages
+   :members:
+   :undoc-members:
+   :show-inheritance:   
+
diff --git a/garak/buffs/base.py b/garak/buffs/base.py
index 44c091a1c..4e6da69a4 100644
--- a/garak/buffs/base.py
+++ b/garak/buffs/base.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
         print(
             f"🦾 loading {Style.BRIGHT}{Fore.LIGHTGREEN_EX}buff: {Style.RESET_ALL}{self.fullname}"
         )
-        logging.info(f"buff init: {self}")
+        logging.info("buff init: %s", self)
 
     def _derive_new_attempt(
         self, source_attempt: garak.attempt.Attempt, seq=-1
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def transform(
         self, attempt: garak.attempt.Attempt
     ) -> Iterable[garak.attempt.Attempt]:
         """attempt copying is handled elsewhere. isn't that nice"""
-        yield attempt
+        yield self._derive_new_attempt(attempt)
 
     def buff(
         self, source_attempts: List[garak.attempt.Attempt], probename=""
diff --git a/garak/buffs/low_resource_languages.py b/garak/buffs/low_resource_languages.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..900220f44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/garak/buffs/low_resource_languages.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2023 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+""" Buff that converts prompts with different encodings. """
+
+import logging
+from collections.abc import Iterable
+from deepl import Translator
+from os import getenv
+
+import garak.attempt
+from garak.buffs.base import Buff
+
+# Low resource languages supported by DeepL
+# ET = Estonian
+# ID = Indonesian
+# LT = Lithuanian
+# LV = Latvian
+# SK = Slovak
+# SL = Slovenian
+LOW_RESOURCE_LANGUAGES = ["ET", "ID", "LV", "SK", "SL"]
+
+
+class LRLBuff(Buff):
+    """Low Resource Language buff
+
+    Uses the DeepL API to translate prompts into low-resource languages"""
+
+    uri = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02446"
+
+    api_key_error_sent = False
+
+    def transform(
+        self, attempt: garak.attempt.Attempt
+    ) -> Iterable[garak.attempt.Attempt]:
+        api_key = getenv("DEEPL_API_KEY", None)
+        if api_key is None:
+            if not self.api_key_error_sent:
+                msg = "DEEPL_API_KEY not set in env, cannot use LRLBuff."
+                user_msg = (
+                    msg
+                    + " If you do not have a DeepL API key, sign up at https://www.deepl.com/pro#developer"
+                )
+                logging.error(msg)
+                print("⚠️ ", user_msg)
+                self.api_key_error_sent = True
+            yield attempt
+
+        else:
+            translator = Translator(api_key)
+            prompt = attempt.prompt
+            attempt.notes["original_prompt"] = prompt
+            for language in LOW_RESOURCE_LANGUAGES:
+                attempt.notes["LRL_buff_dest_lang"] = language
+                response = translator.translate_text(prompt, target_lang=language)
+                translated_prompt = response.text
+                attempt.prompt = translated_prompt
+                yield self._derive_new_attempt(attempt)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 88c4eee4f..9c23ee60a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "markdown",
   "zalgolib>=0.2.2",
   "ecoji>=0.1.0",
+  "deepl==1.17.0",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3d04110be..aac9941fb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@ torch>=2.1.0
 sentencepiece>=0.1.99
 markdown
 zalgolib>=0.2.2
-ecoji>=0.1.0
\ No newline at end of file
+ecoji>=0.1.0
+deepl==1.17.0
\ No newline at end of file