Christian Hansen (translator)

Christian Hansen (* 1962 in Cologne ) is a German translator for literature from the Spanish and French languages.

Life

Hansen studied general and comparative literature at the Free University in Berlin . He did his practical training as a translator and editor for the German-language edition of Le Monde diplomatique . He worked in the Berlin translation workshop and translated works by Juan Goytisolo and José Pablo Feinmann together with Thomas Brovot .

Hansen mainly translates Latin American authors such as Vizconde de Lascano Tegui , Alan Pauls , Patricio Pron and Guillermo Rosales . Other authors Hansen has translated so far have been Roberto Bolaño , Julio Cortázar , Mario González Suárez and Sergio Pitol .

He lives and works in Berlin and Madrid.

In the 2016/17 winter semester, Hansen August Wilhelm von Schlegel was visiting professor for the poetics of translation at the Peter Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

Hansen is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.

Translations (selection)

César Aira

• Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero , novel.
  • An episode in the life of the travel painter , novel. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-957-57140-3

Roberto Bolaño

• "Los Sinsabores del verdadero policía", Anagrama, Barcelona 2011, ISBN 978-84-339-7221-7 .
  • The needs of the real policeman , Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-23973-9
• El Tercer Empire. Anagrama, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-339-7205-7 .
  • The Third Reich . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23610-3 .
• 2666 . Novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23396-6 .
• Una novelita lumpen , Mondadori, Barcelona 2002, ISBN 84-397-0955-2 .
  • Lumpenroman , Hanser, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23546-5 .
  • as Fischer paperback: Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-18785-0 .
• Llamadas telefónicas.
  • Phone calls. Stories. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-13669-3 .
• Estrella distante.
  • Star in the distance. Novel. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-19606-6 .
  • as Fischer paperback: Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18731-7 .
• Putas asesinas , Anagrama, Barcelona, ​​2001, ISBN 84-339-2485-0
  • Murderous Whores , Hanser Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24593-8

Alan Pauls

• El pasado , Roman.
  • The past , novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-608-93705-3 .
• Historia del llanto. Novel.
  • Story of tears. Novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-93710-7 .
• Historia del Pelo. Novel.
  • History of hair. Novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-93958-3 .
• Historia del dinero , Roman. Anagrama, Barcelona 2013.
  • History of money , novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-608-98005-9 .

Vizconde de Lascano Tegui

• Album de familia. Novel.
  • Family album. With portraits of strangers. Novel. With an afterword by Dietrich Lückoff. Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-552-04970-3 .

Patricio Pron

• El espiritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia , Roman, Mondadori, Barcelona 2011, ISBN 978-84-397-2363-9 .
  • My fathers spirit rises in the rain . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-05311-6 .

Augusto Cruz

• Londres después de medianoche .
  • At midnight . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42477-3 .

Prizes and awards

• 2010: Nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair 2010 Prize in the Translation category for the translation of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666 .
• 2010: Jane Scatcherd Prize for the translation of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666 .
• 2014: European Translator Award Offenburg
• 2016: August Wilhelm von Schlegel Guest Professor for Poetics of Translation at the Free University of Berlin
• 2019: Recognition award of the Zug translator scholarship

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Hansen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hansen in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
• Vita at the German Translation Fund

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Hansen. (No longer available online.) In: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de. October 7, 2016, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.