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Ross Benjamin
Ross Benjamin is an American translator of German literature and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. He has won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Michael Maar's ''Speak, Nabokov''. He also received a commendation from the judges of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Thomas Pletzinger's ''Funeral for a Dog''. He is a graduate of Vassar College and a former Fulbright scholar. His translation of Daniel Kehlmann's novel ''Tyll'' (2017) was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Benjamin has written for the ''Times Literary Supplement'', ''The Nation'', etc. He lives in Nyack, New York. The Times of London referred to Benjamin as a "Comic Virtuoso" for his work on ''Tyll'' by Daniel Kehlmann. He is the son of attorney Jeff Benjamin and LCSW Betsy Benjamin. Translations * ''Speak, Nabokov'' by Michael Maar * ''Funeral for a Dog'' by Thomas Pletzinger * '' Hyperion'' by Friedrich Hölderlin * ''Close to Jedenew'' by Kevin Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Literature
German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by German dialects, dialects (e.g. Alemannic literature, Alemannic). Medieval German literature is literature written in Germany, stretching from the Carolingian dynasty; various dates have been given for the end of the German literary Middle Ages, the Protestant Reformation, Reformation (1517) being the last possible cut-off point. The Old High German period is reckoned to run until about the mid-11th century; the most famous works are the ''Hildebrandslied'' and a heroic epic known as the ''Heliand''. Middle High German starts in the 12t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of A Simple Man
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21st-century American Translators
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Living People
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels ''The Trial'' and '' The Castle''. The term ''Kafkaesque'' has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyll (novel)
''Tyll'' is a 2017 novel, originally written in German, by the Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann. The book is based, in part, on the folkloristic tales about Till Eulenspiegel, a jester who was the subject of a chapbook in 16th century Germany, as well as on the history of the Thirty Years' War. The book was first published in October 2017 in the original German by Rowohlt Verlag. An English translation by Ross Benjamin was published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House, New York, in February 2020. Between its initial publication in 2017, and its publication in English, ''Tyll'' had sold almost 600,000 copies in Germany. Plot Kehlmann does not narrate Tyll's story in a linear fashion. The chapter "Shoes" that serves as the novel's prologue tells a tale from the middle of the jester's life. "Shoes." Deep into the Thirty Years' War Tyll Ulenspiegel arrives in a town where the war had not yet come, along with Nele, an old woman, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Should Have Left (novella)
''You Should Have Left'' (Original title: ''Du hättest gehen sollen'') is a 2016 novella by German writer Daniel Kehlmann. Originally written in German, it was later translated by Ross Benjamin into English. The novella is the diary of a screenwriter attempting to write a sequel, ''Besties 2,'' to follow his earlier success, ''Besties''. He is on a deadline for the production studio and includes events from his daily life in his screenplay. Plot December 2: An unnamed narrator rents a house through Airbnb for himself, his wife, and his daughter to stay in on vacation. He also spends that time writing the sequel for his screenplay. Susanna disapproves of his screenplay, this starts several fights between them. December 3: The narrator begins to experience abnormalities in the house. He gets lost while looking for the bedroom. He blames it on him still getting used to the house's layout and starts creating the plot for his screenplay. December 4: The narrator recalls a strange n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Klein
Stefan Klein (born October 5, 1965) is a physicist, author, essayist and visiting professor at Berlin University of the Arts. He is best known for his books ''The Science of Happiness'' and ''Time: A User's Guide''. His works have been translated into 25 languages and became best sellers in many countries. on author's homepage Life and work Klein was born in , . Both his parents were chemists and had immigrated from ; their ancestors had been scientists for three gen ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliane Koepcke
Juliane Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist and biologist. In 1971, when she was 17 years old, Koepcke survived the LANSA Flight 508 plane crash. After falling while strapped to her seat, the teen survived 11 days alone in the Amazon rainforest. Early life Koepcke was born in Lima, Peru, in 1954 to German parents who worked at the Museum of Natural History, Lima. She was the only child of biologist Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and ornithologist Maria Koepcke. When Koepcke was 14, her parents left Lima to establish Panguana, a research station in the Amazon rainforest. She became a "jungle child" and learned survival techniques. Educational authorities disapproved and Koepcke was required to return to the Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt to take her examinations. She graduated on 23 December 1971. Crash On Christmas Eve 1971, Koepcke flew on LANSA Flight 508. Koepcke had just graduated from h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Jeschke
Wolfgang Jeschke (19 November 1936 – 10 June 2015) was a German science fiction author and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction. Biography Jeschke was born in 1936 in Děčín (then in Czechoslovakia, now in the Czech Republic). After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II, he grew up in Asperg near Ludwigsburg. After graduating from high school, he trained as a toolmaker and worked in mechanical engineering. In 1959, he went back to complete the and studied German, English literature, and philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He completed a publishing internship at the publisher C.H. Beck. In 1969, he was hired as editorial assistant for the Kindler literature encyclopedia, and later became an editor. In 1970, author Herbert W. Franke offered a science fiction novel; the publisher remembered Jeschke's interest in science fiction and asked him for his opinion. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auma Obama
Rita Auma Obama (born 1960), is a Kenyan-British community activist, sociologist, journalist, author, and half-sister of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. Obama serves as the executive chairwoman of Sauti Kuu Foundation (Strong Voices Foundation), a non-profit organisation that helps orphans and other young people struggling with poverty in Kenya. Background and education Auma Obama is the daughter of Barack Obama Sr. and his first wife, Kezia Obama (''née'' Aoko). She is the older half-sister of Barack Obama. After attending local elementary and secondary schools, she secured a scholarship to attend university in Germany. She studied German at Heidelberg University from 1981 until 1987. After her graduation from Heidelberg, she went on for graduate studies at the University of Bayreuth, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1996. She also studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Obama's final project at the Film Academy w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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