Elisabeth Schnack

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Elisabeth Schnack (born December 23, 1899 as Elisabeth Schüler in Joachimsthal / Uckermark , † February 14, 1992 in Zurich ) was a Swiss translator of literary works and a writer .

Life

Elisabeth Schnack was the daughter of a botanist . She trained as a high school teacher and went to the Republic of China in 1924 , where she founded a private school in Mukden ( Manchuria ). She married a German merchant with whom she had two sons. In 1938 she went to Switzerland . She studied English literature at the University of Geneva , then taught at a translation school and stayed in Dublin for nine months . From 1950 she worked as a literary translator in Zurich. Here she made an important contribution to the reception of English-language literature from Great Britain , Ireland , North America and the Commonwealth in the German-speaking area. She has also written books with portraits of the authors she has translated.

Awards

Works

Own

Editing

  • Irish storytellers , Manesse Verlag , Zurich 1952, ISBN 3-7175-1200-5
  • David Herbert Lawrence : Meisternovellen , Zurich 1953
  • The gift of the wise , Munich 1955
  • Irish master of narration , Bremen-Horn 1955
  • Louis Bromfield : Zenobia , Munich 1957
  • American storytellers , Zurich
    • 1. From Washington Irving to Dorothy Parker , 1957
    • 2. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to William Goyen , 1957
  • The tree with bitter figs , Zurich 1959
  • Australian storytellers , Olten [u. a.] 1961
  • Green Island , Zurich 1961
  • The green gnu and other stories from South Africa , Zurich 1962
  • Louis Bromfield: A great woman , Munich 1964
  • Irish storytellers of the present , Stuttgart 1965 (translated together with Georg Goyert )
  • Ireland tells , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1968
  • Love stories from Ireland , Zurich 1969
  • Eternally young Ireland , Bern 1970
  • The beautiful Moireen , Wabern 1972
  • Stories for the whole year , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1974
  • Irish short stories , Munich 1976
  • Irish Christmas , Zurich 1977
  • Christmas in Scotland and England , Zurich 1978
  • Christmas overseas , Zurich 1979
  • Like the breath of a buffalo in winter , Hamburg 1979
  • Irish children , Zurich 1980
  • Uncanny stories , Munich 1981
  • A rhinoceros, two ladies and a horse and other whimsical stories and drawings of four-legged friends and two-legged friends , Zurich 1984
  • The animal way of life , Munich 1986
  • Irish stew , Munich 1986
  • Rainer Maria Rilke : The letters to Karl and Elisabeth von der Heydt , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald : Master narratives , Zurich 1988
  • Faulkner in West Point , Zurich 1990

Translations

Elisabeth Schnack has translated works by Kingsley Amis , Truman Capote , Willa Cather , William Faulkner , JD Salinger and Frank O'Connor , among others .

literature

  • Elisabeth Schnack on her 90th birthday on December 23, 1989  : with this font, the Pendo publishing house offers its author the warmest congratulations on her 90th birthday. - Zurich: Pendo-Verl., 1989. - ISBN 3-85842-178-2

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personal data
SURNAME Schnack, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pupil, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Joachimsthal , Uckermark
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1992
Place of death Zurich