Krishna Winston is an American academic and translator of German literature. She is the daughter of translators

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'' She obtained her BA at Smith College, followed by an MPhil and a doctorate from

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. She is currently the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature at

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, and Günter Grass. She has received several prizes for excellence in translation. These include the

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(twice) and the Kurt and Helen Wolff Prize.

Selected translations

* '' The Moravian Night'',

. FSG. * ''The Great Fall'',

. Seagull. * '' Starlite Terrace'', Patrick Roth. Seagull.2013 * ''From Germany to Germany'', Günter Grass. Harcourt. 2012 * ''The Box''. Günter Grass. Harcourt, 2010 * ''Conquest of the Useless'',

. HarperCollins/Echo, 2009. * ''Memoirs'', Hans Jonas. Brandeis/Tauber Institute, 2008. * ''Crabwalk'', Günter Grass. Harcourt, 2003. * ''On a Dark Night I Left My Quiet House'',

. FSG, 2000. * ''Too Far Afield'', Günter Grass. Harcourt, 2000. (Schlegel-Tieck Prize, Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize) * ''My Year in the No-Man's Bay'',

. FSG, 1998. * ''Joseph Goebbels'', Ralf Georg Reuth. Harcourt, 1993. (Schlegel-Tieck Prize) * ''The Anarchy of the Imagination'',

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. Johns Hopkins for PAJ Books, 1992. * ''With the Next Man Everything Will Be Different'', Eva Heller. Random House, 1992. * ''The Hour of the Women'', Count Krockow Christian. HarperCollins, 1991. * ''Two States, One Nation'', Günter Grass. Harcourt, 1990. * ''Reminiscences and Reflections'',

. Norton, 1990. * ''The Distant Lover'',

. Pantheon, 1989. * ''Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years'',

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. Suhrkamp, 1989.

References

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