Peter Tegel is a British translator of
Czech
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German
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descent. As a boy, he fled with his family from the Nazi occupation of
Sudetenland
The Sudetenland ( , ; Czech and sk, Sudety) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans. These German speakers had predominated in the ...
, arriving in Britain where he studied at
Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...
. He has translated works of German, French and Russian literature. In particular he is noted for his translations of the German writer
Uwe Timm
Uwe Timm (; born 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German writer.
Life and work
Uwe Timm was born in the year 1940 in Hamburg.
Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died i ...
. These include the titles ''Midsummer Night'', ''Headhunter'', and ''The Snake Tree'', the last of which won the
Schlegel-Tieck Prize
The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation is a literary translation award given by the Society of Authors in London. Translations from the German original into English are considered for the prize. The value of the prize is £3,000. . Tegel has also translated the plays of
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...
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Tegel's biography at New Directions Publishing
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British translators
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