Krishna Winston is an American academic and translator of
German literature
German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy a ...
. She is the daughter of translators
Richard and Clara Winston.
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'' The New York Times'' She obtained her
BA at
Smith College
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, followed by an
MPhil
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and a doctorate from
Yale University. She is currently the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature at
Wesleyan University.
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She has translated more than 30 books, including works by Oskar Schlemmer, Golo Mann, Grete Weil, Christoph Hein, Peter Handke, Werner Herzog, and Günter Grass
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He was born in the Free City of Da ...
. She has received several prizes for excellence in translation. These include the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (twice) and the Kurt and Helen Wolff Prize.
Selected translations
* ''The Moravian Night
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'', Peter Handke. FSG.
* ''The Great Fall'', Peter Handke. Seagull.
* ''Starlite Terrace
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Setting and structure
“Starlite Terrace” is the name of the Los Angeles apartment co ...
'', Patrick Roth
Patrick Roth (born June 25, 1953 in Freiburg/Breisgau) is a German writer. He moved to the USA in his early twenties and lived there for many years. The author of more than a dozen books, he has won a number of literary prizes including the Rauris ...
. Seagull.2013
* ''From Germany to Germany'', Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in the Free City of Da ...
. Harcourt. 2012
* ''The Box''. Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in the Free City of Da ...
. Harcourt, 2010
* ''Conquest of the Useless'', Werner Herzog. HarperCollins/Echo, 2009.
* ''Memoirs'', Hans Jonas
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Biography
Jonas was born ...
. Brandeis/Tauber Institute, 2008.
* ''Crabwalk'', Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in the Free City of Da ...
. Harcourt, 2003.
* ''On a Dark Night I Left My Quiet House'', Peter Handke. FSG, 2000.
* ''Too Far Afield'', Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in the Free City of Da ...
. Harcourt, 2000. (Schlegel-Tieck Prize, Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize)
* ''My Year in the No-Man's Bay'', Peter Handke. FSG, 1998.
* ''Joseph Goebbels'', Ralf Georg Reuth. Harcourt, 1993. (Schlegel-Tieck Prize)
* ''The Anarchy of the Imagination'', Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Johns Hopkins for PAJ Books, 1992.
* ''With the Next Man Everything Will Be Different'', Eva Heller
Eva Heller (8 April 1948 - 31 January 2008) was a German writer and social scientist. She was born in Esslingen am Neckar.
Career
As a writer, she published in a wide range of genres, including novels, children's books and non-fiction works. He ...
. Random House, 1992.
* ''The Hour of the Women'', Count Krockow Christian
Count Christian von Krockow (26 May 1927 – 17 March 2002), writing in German as Christian Graf von Krockow, was a German writer and political scientist.
Count Christian von Krockow was born in Rumbske (Rumsko) near the city of Stolp (Słups ...
. HarperCollins, 1991.
* ''Two States, One Nation'', Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in the Free City of Da ...
. Harcourt, 1990.
* ''Reminiscences and Reflections'', Golo Mann. Norton, 1990.
* ''The Distant Lover'', Christoph Hein. Pantheon, 1989.
* ''Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years'', Goethe. Suhrkamp, 1989.
References
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American translators
German–English translators
Living people
American women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe