Curt Meyer-Clason

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Curt Meyer-Clason (19 September 1910 – 13 January 2012) was a German writer and translator.[1]

Biography

Meyer-Clason was born in

Goethe Institute
in Lisbon.

Curt Meyer-Clason was a member of the Association of German Writers, the

PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a corresponding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro. He received the following awards: 1975 Translation Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature, 1978 Translation Prize of the Cultural Committee of the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI) and in 1996 the Federal Merit 1st Class
.

As of 2008, Meyer-Clason was living in Munich and in 2011 he turned 100.[2] He died in Munich in January 2012 at the age of 101.

Works

  • Literatura alemana actual, Asunción 1969
  • Erstens die Freiheit, Wuppertal 1978
  • Portugiesische Tagebücher, Königstein/Ts. 1979
  • Äquator, Bergisch Gladbach 1986
  • Unterwegs, Bergisch Gladbach 1989
  • Die Menschen sterben nicht, sie werden verzaubert, München [u. a.] 1990
  • Die große Insel, Reicheneck 1995
  • Der Unbekannte, München 1999
  • Bin gleich wieder da, Weitra 2000

References

  1. ^ "Übersetzer Curt Meyer-Clason gestorben | Kuvi". Kuvi.de. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
  2. ^ Lindner, Christian (2010-09-19). "Übersetzen ist Mitleben" (in German). dradio.de. Retrieved 2010-09-19.

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