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Michael Hamburger

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British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic (1924-2007)

United KingdomWritersLived 1924 to 2007 · aged 83
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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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Awards 8

2001Horst Bienek Award for Poetry
2000Cholmondeley Award
1991Friedrich Hölderlin Prize
1986Goethe Medal
1964Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Popescu Prize
Schlegel-Tieck Prize

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Tacita DeanAlso in Michael Hamburger (2007)David HarveyAlso won Schlegel-Tieck PrizeAlice OswaldAlso won Popescu PrizeJudith HerzbergAlso won Horst Bienek Award for PoetryKarl DedeciusAlso won Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for TranslationArno CamenischAlso won Friedrich Hölderlin Prize

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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. The publisher Paul Hamlyn (1926-2001) was his younger brother.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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deceased
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Lived 1924 to 2007 · aged 83
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9 languages

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