Susanna Roth (1950–1997) was a Swiss bohemist and literary translator.

Career

Susanna Roth studied Romance and Slavic philology in Zürich, Paris and Prague. From 1977 to 1982 she worked at the Slavic studies of the

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. In 1985, she received her doctorate from the same university based on a dissertation on the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. She worked as a translator and headed the Zürich East/West office of the Pro Helvetia Foundation. Roth translated more than thirty books by Czech authors into German, including

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, Bohumil Hrabal,

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and

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. Roth was the recipient of two Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators of the

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in Vienna. In 1993, she was awarded the Premia Bohemica award for her contribution to popularising Czech literature abroad. Two years later, she received the Jaeggi-Übersetzer-Preis.

Legacy

The Susanna Roth Award, named after her, has been awarded to young translators from Czech since 2014 by the Literary Section of the Arts and Theatre Institute and the

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. Its 2023 edition was held in 17 countries.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roth, Susanna Swiss translators Swiss philologists People from Wuppertal 1950 births 1997 deaths Translators from Czech