Dirk van Gunsteren
Dirk van Gunsteren (born 1953 in Düsseldorf ) is a German literary translator from English and Dutch and a freelance editor.
biography
Van Gunsteren grew up in Duisburg; his mother is German, his father was a Dutch shipowner. After several stays in India and the USA, he studied American studies at the University of Munich . Since 1984 he has been working as a translator, particularly from English. Van Gunsteren lives in Munich (as of autumn 2019).
In 2007 van Gunsteren received the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize, endowed with € 15,000, for his translation of Anglo-Saxon literature.
Awards
- 2007: Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize to Dirk van Gunsteren
- 2009: German Crime Prize (1st place International Prize Winner) for Richard Stark: Ask the Parrot , translated by Dirk van Gunsteren
- 2018: Translator Award from the City of Munich "for its outstanding quality and scope"
Selection of translated authors
Harold Brodkey , Thomas Pynchon , Henry Miller , VS Naipaul , Philip Roth , Patricia Highsmith , Edward St Aubyn , Colum McCann , TC Boyle , John Irving , John Grisham , Oliver Sacks , Eric Ambler , Amitav Ghosh , Peter Carey , Nik Cohn , Jonathan Safran Foer , Henry David Thoreau , Donald E. Westlake (cf.), Richard Russo , Ellis Peters , Peter S. Beagle , George V. Higgins , John Dos Passos , Ray Bradbury , Castle Freeman , Adam Haslett , David Constantine , George Saunders , David Means , Claire Vaye Watkins
Web links
- Literature by and about Dirk van Gunsteren in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wieland Freund : 116 pages left to Buffalo. on: Welt Online . October 30, 2004.
- A phantom with a sense of humor. Interview with Dirk van Gunsteren on the occasion of the publication of Gegen den Tag , May 1, 2008.
- “I let myself fall for it” , interview with Dirk van Gunsteren, taz , 30./31. May 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk van Gunsteren. ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on: mare online
- ↑ “I don't want to have another job.” - Portrait of the literary translator Dirk van Gunsteren. on: uebersetzerportal.de , October 31, 2004.
- ↑ Dirk van Gunsteren. on: krimi-forum.net
- ↑ Dirk van Gunsteren receives Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize. on: boersenblatt.net , August 28, 2007
- ↑ Dirk van Gunsteren receives the Munich Translator Award, boersenblatt.net, March 8, 2018, accessed on March 9, 2018
- ↑ Dirk van Gunsteren. at: books-by-isbn.com (accessed September 20, 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gunsteren, Dirk van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |