Martin Chalmers (11 November 1948 – 22 October 2014) was a British translator, particularly of works in German. He was awarded the
Schlegel-Tieck Prize by the
Society of Authors.
He was married to the German author,
Esther Kinsky.
Translations
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Günter Wallraff: ''Lowest of the Low'' (Ganz unten). Methuen, 1988
*
Herta Müller: ''The Passport'' (Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt). Serpent's Tail, 1989
*
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: ''Europe, Europe!'' (Ach Europa!). Pantheon Books, 1989
*
Elfriede Jelinek: ''Women as Lovers''. Serpent's Tail, 1994
*
Victor Klemperer: ''I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years'', 1999 (in two volumes)
*
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 ...
: ''Stories of Mr. Keuner'' (Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner). City Lights Books, 2001
*
Alexander Kluge: ''The Devil's Blind Spot''. New Directions, 2004 (with
Michael Hulse)
*Elfriede Jelinek: ''Greed''. Serpent's Tail, 2006
*
Erich Hackl: ''The Wedding in Auschwitz'' (Die Hochzeit von Auschwitz). Serpent's Tail, 2009
* Hans Magnus Enzensberger: ''A History of Clouds''. Seagull Books, 2010 (übers. mit Esther Kinsky)
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Thomas Bernhard: ''Prose''. Seagull Books, 2010
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Esther Kinsky: ''Summer Resort'' (Sommerfrische). Seagull Books, 2011
* Hans Magnus Enzensberger: ''Brussels, the Gentle Monster'' (Sanftes Monster Brüssel oder die Entmündigung Europas). University of Chicago Press, 2011
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Ulrich Peltzer: ''Part of the Solution'' (Teil der Lösung). Seagull Books, 2011
*Alexander Kluge: ''December'', Seagull Books, 2012
* Alexander Kluge: ''Air Raid'' (Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945). Seagull Books, 2014
* Sherko Fatah: ''The Dark Ship'' (Das dunkle Schiff). Seagull Books, 2015
References
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1948 births
2014 deaths
20th-century British translators