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Poets' A-Z » Esther Kinsky
Esther Kinsky was born in 1956 in Engelkirchen, Germany and
after living in the UK for a decade, now lives in Hungary.
She is considered one of the most distinguished translators
from Polish into German and was awarded the prestigious Berlin
Brucke award together with the author Olga Tokarczuk for her
translation of the novel Taghaus, Nachthaus.
Having translated nearly fifty books, her translations from
Polish include prose by well-known authors such as Miron Bialoszewski,
Hanna Krall, Aleksander Wat, Ida Fink, Olga Tokarczuk, Magdalena
Tulli, and poetry by Ryszard Krynicki. Her own writings include
Tiefebene, a memoir (1995), and her poetry was included
in the recent volume Modern Poetry in Translation No.
17: Mother Tongues.
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