Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright (* 3. October 1966 in Baltimore as Elizabeth (Ann) Oehlkers ) is a US-based translator .
Life
Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright translates texts by contemporary German-speaking authors, especially poetry , into English. In 1996 she earned an MFA in literary translation from the University of Arkansas . This was preceded by a study visit to Berlin from September 1994 to July 1995 , where she translated the German-Turkish poets Zafer Şenocak and Zehra Çırak . She then taught in Arkansas as well as at Boston University and Oberlin College . With Zafer Şenocak she gave bilingual readings in Memphis , New York , Cambridge , San Francisco and Los Angeles . She has received several awards and grants (including NEA and ALTA ).
Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright works in a medical translation agency in Boston and was married to the lyric poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright from 1999 until his death in 2015 . She lives in Waltham , Massachusetts.
Translations
- Ernst Peter Fischer : Beauty and the Beast. The Aesthetic Moment in Science , 1999 (Orig .: Beauty and the Beast. Aesthetic Dimension in Science , 1997)
- Documentary by Harald Ortlieb about Zehra Çirak and the object artist Jürgen Walter , 2007 (translated together with Marilya Veteto Reese)
- Zafer Şenocak: Door Languages , 2008
- Valzhyna Mort : Factory of Tears . Port Townsend (Washington, USA): Copper Canyon Press, 2008 (from the Belarusian together with Franz Wright)
- Translations for literary magazines and anthologies , including New European Poets , Anthology of World Literature of the 20th Century and Green Integer. Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.slope.org/archive/eleven/senocak.html
- ^ David Mehegan: Out of the darkness. After battling alcoholism and mental illness, poet Franz Wright has stepped into the light , Boston Globe, May 18, 2004
- ^ Translations of poems that were mainly taken from the volume Fernwehanstalten (preface, p. XVI)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2007 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.
- ↑ http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-The-PIP-Anthology-of-World-Poetry-Volume-7-Contemporary-Poets-Writing-in-German-&BookID=218
Web links
- AGNI 52: Translations by various German-speaking authors
- Translations of various poems by Zafer Şenocak: slope.org , Perihelion , Octopus Magazine
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wright, Elizabeth Oehlkers |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oehlkers, Elizabeth Ann (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd October 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |