Joachim Kalka
Joachim Kalka (* 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a German writer and translator .
life and work
Joachim Kalka has been publishing essayistic articles in literary and theory journals since 1976 . His main job has been a translator of literary texts and non-fiction books from English and French since the 1980s. He lives in Leipzig.
Joachim Kalka has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 1997 , of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2009 and sits on the board of trustees of the Academy for Spoken Word in Stuttgart.
Awards
- 1996: Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation
- 2014: Johann Friedrich von Cotta Prize for Literature and Translation from the City of Stuttgart as a translator
Works
- Zwetsgen tree wood. Ulrich Keicher, Warmbronn 2004.
- Phantoms of the Enlightenment. Berenberg, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-937834-15-3 .
- High down. Berenberg, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-937834-30-6 .
- The cat, the rain, the realm of the dead. Berenberg, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937834-51-1 .
- Gas light. Collection pictures from the 19th century. Berenberg, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937834-64-1 .
- The moon. Berenberg, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-946334-03-3 .
- Peanuts . Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-020448-1 (in the series 100 pages ).
- Dust. Berenberg, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-946334-61-3 .
- Editing
- together with Friedhelm Kemp : Sociable loneliness. Selected essays on literature. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-1693-5
Translations
Kalka has translated works by Edwin Abbott Abbott , Martin Amis , Perry Anderson , Max Beerbohm , Léon Blum , Fernand Braudel , Anthony Burgess , Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Angela Carter , Gilbert K. Chesterton , Jim Crace , Michael de Larrabeiti , Peter Demetz , Bret , among others Easton Ellis , Charles Grandison Finney , Jean Giraudoux , Ernst H. Gombrich , Charles Grandison Finney, Henry Green , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Joseph Heller , Christopher Hitchens , Russell Hoban , Christopher Hope , Michael Innes , Christopher Isherwood , John Maynard Keynes , Christopher John Koch , Wayne Koestenbaum , Abbott J. Liebling , Arthur Make , George Meredith , Jessica Mitford , Frank Plumpton Ramsey , Gilbert Sorrentino , James Stephens , Barbara Strachey , Kay Thompson , JRR Tolkien , Jeff Torrington and William Foote Whyte .
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Joachim Kalka at perlentaucher.de
- Literature by and about Joachim Kalka in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Relocation from Stuttgart to Leipzig June 25, 2013
- ↑ Academy for the Spoken Word | Board. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kalka, Joachim |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator and literary critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |