Fritz Vogelgsang (1 March 1930 in
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
– 22 October 2009 in
Chiva de Morella) was a German translator, essayist and editor.
He translated into German the work of various important Spanish-language writers:
Rafael Alberti,
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Antonio Machado
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Octavio Paz,
Pablo Neruda
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
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,
Miguel Ángel Asturias, etc.
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Honors
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Literaturpreis der Stadt Stuttgart (1978)
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Christoph-Martin-Wieland-Übersetzerpreis (1979)
* Premio Nacional de Formento de la Traducción de Autores Espanoles (1984)
* Premi de Literatura Catalana (1985)
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Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung
The Johann Heinrich Voß Prize in Translation (german: Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung) is awarded yearly by the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. (1991)
* Wilhelm-Merton-Preis für europäische Übersetzungen (2001)
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Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse
The Leipzig Book Fair Prize () is a literary award assigned annually during the Leipzig Book Fair to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation". The Leipzig Book Fair Prize has been award ...
(2008)
References
External links
Nachruf auf Fritz Vogelgsang in der "Frankfurter Rundschau"*
1930 births
2009 deaths
Writers from Stuttgart
Spanish–German translators
German essayists
German male essayists
20th-century German translators
20th-century essayists
20th-century German male writers
Stuttgarter Zeitung people
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