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Michael Hamburger
British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic (1924-2007) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 83
Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger was a noted German-British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work in literary criticism.
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2007Died7 June 20072001Horst Bienek Award for PoetryAward2000Cholmondeley AwardAward1991Friedrich Hölderlin PrizeAward1986Goethe MedalAward1964Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for TranslationAward1924Born22 March 1924
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About this person
The publisher Paul Hamlyn (1926-2001) was his younger brother.
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1924 to 2007 · aged 83
