Popescu Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 3 (1987) Winner
Ewald Osers
えーゔぁると・おーさーず
Ewald Osers
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1917-05-13 （Prague）
- Died
- 2011-10-11 （London） age 94
- Nationality
- Czech
- Languages
- Czech, English, German
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Prague, Austria-Hungary → United Kingdom
Career
- Occupations
- translator, poet
- Active Years
- 1945-2011
- Affiliations
- BBC World Service
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Schlegel-Tieck Prize | Scorched Earth: Hitler's War on Russia, Vol. 2 | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1987 | European Poetry Translation Prize | The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert | — | — | 受賞 |
Schlegel-Tieck Prize
1971
Work:
Scorched Earth: Hitler's War on Russia, Vol. 2
Result:
受賞
European Poetry Translation Prize
1987
Work:
The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Arrive Where We Started
1995 poemsA collection of his poems.
Snows of Yesteryear
2007 memoirHis memoir.
Bibliography
- Modern Czech Poetry: An Anthology
- A Working Friendship: The Correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Scorched Earth: Hitler's War on Russia, Vol. 2
- The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
Translations by Author
- Óndra Łysohorsky, Selected Poems
- Miroslav Holub, On the Contrary, and Other Poems
- Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein's Nephew
Legacy
Czech translator and poet renowned for translating 20th-century Czech poetry into English. Also worked for BBC World Service.
Trivia
- Emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United Kingdom.
- Worked for the BBC World Service.
- Jewish from Austria-Hungary.