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Name
  
Ewald Osers

Role
  
Translator

Awards
  
Schlegel-Tieck Prize


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Died
  
October 11, 2011, Reading, United Kingdom

Books
  
Snows of Yesteryear: A Translator's Story : an Autobiography

Similar People
  
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Ewald Osers (Prague, 13 May 1917 – 11 October 2011) was a Czech translator born in Austria-Hungary.

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Career

He translated several important Czech poetry works of the 20th century into English, including Czech poetry, including Jaroslav Seifert, Vítězslav Nezval, Miroslav Holub and Jan Skácel. He also translated several German-language authors such as Thomas Bernhard, as well as Macedonian-language books (Mateja Matevski), poetry of the Silesian poet Ondra Lysohorsky, and two major Slovak poets, Miroslav Válek and Milan Rúfus.

Awards

  • European Poetry Translation Prize
  • References

    Ewald Osers Wikipedia