Karin Graf

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Karin Graf (also: Karin Graf-Sartorius , born December 3, 1952 in Bergheim / Erft ) is a German literary agent and translator .

Live and act

Karin Graf was after the study of German as a journalist working; later she worked in the field of public relations , among others for the Rowohlt publishing house and the Berliner Ensemble . Since the 1980s she has translated numerous narrative works and poetry from English into German . In 1995 she founded the literary agency "Graf & Graf" in Berlin , and since 2006 she has been co-owner of the culture and concept agency "Graf & Frey". Graf is married to the writer Joachim Sartorius ; she lives in Berlin . Graf is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Awards

In addition to scholarships from the German Literature Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation , she received the Helmut M. Braem Translation Prize in 1990 and, together with her husband, the Paul Scheerbart Prize for poetry translation awarded by the Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt Foundation in 1998 .

Editor of the following works

• New American poetry or "Chemicals made from dirt" . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990
• A breviary and materials for translators . Berlin 1991
• First European Translators' Conference , location Literarisches Colloquium Berlin . Series: workbook literature. Publication by the Goethe-Institut , Munich, Speech work-cultural institute section. Ed. Educational liaison work at the Goethe-Institut, Munich 1992
• The translator's difficult double life . Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-353-01012-2

Translations

• James Agee with Walker Evans : I want to praise the great men , Munich 1989 and 2013, Die Other Bibliothek, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8477-0344-0 .
• Bruno Bettelheim : Freud and the human soul , Düsseldorf 1984
• Edward Bond : Great Peace , Frankfurt (center) 1987
• Edward Bond: Red, Black and Ignorant , Frankfurt am Main 1985 (translated together with Clive Winter)
• Willa Cather : Meine Antonia , Munich 1990
• Robert Coover : Casablanca, late performance , Reinbek near Hamburg 1990
• Robert Coover: Geralds Party , Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
• Robert Coover: Pinocchio in Venice , Reinbek near Hamburg 1994 (translated together with Gerd Burger)
• Allen Curnow : Trees, Portraits, Movable Objects , Göttingen 1994 (translated together with Joachim Sartorius )
• Joan Didion : Democracy , Cologne 1986
• Rita Dove : The oriental dancer , Reinbek near Hamburg 1988
• Khalil Gibran : The Prophet , Olten [u. a.] 1985
• Rudyard Kipling : My dear children , Munich 1986 (translated together with Michael Walter)
• Malcolm Lowry : Unter dem Vulkan , Reinbek near Hamburg 1984 (translated together with Susanna Rademacher)
• Jim Morrison : The Lost Scriptures Volume 1: Wilderness . Munich 1989
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul : At the bend of the great river , Cologne 1980
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: Dark Regions , Frankfurt am Main 1995
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: A house for Mr. Biswas , Cologne 1981
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: In the old slave states. A journey , Cologne 1990
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: India. A country in turmoil , Cologne 1992
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: An Islamic Journey . Among the believers, Cologne 1982
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: My Aunt Goldzahn , Cologne 1981
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: The mystical masseur , Cologne 1984
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: Prologue to an autobiography , Cologne 1984
• Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: The Riddle of Arrival , Cologne 1993
• Jayne Anne Phillips : Machine Dreams , Frankfurt am Main 1985
• Jayne Anne Phillips : Fast Lane , Frankfurt am Main 1987
• Salman Rushdie : Midnight Children , Munich [u. a.] 1983
• Salman Rushdie: Shame and Shame , Munich [u. a.] 1985
• Susan Sontag : This is how we live now , Zurich [u. a.] 1991
• Wallace Stevens : Adagia , Salzburg [u. a.] 1992 (translated together with Joachim Sartorius )
• Wallace Stevens: The man with the blue guitar , Munich [u. a.] 1995 (translated together with Hans Magnus Enzensberger )
• Denton Welch : A picture in the snow and other stories from the estate , Frankfurt am Main 1991
• William Carlos Williams : Good in the race , Munich [u. a.] 1990
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson , Munich 1998 (translated together with Joachim Sartorius )
• William Carlos Williams: White mule , Munich [u. a.] 1987
• Tobias Wolff : Back in the picture , Reinbek near Hamburg 1988 (translated together with Helga Pfetsch )
• Virginia Woolf : Am Mediterranean , Frankfurt am Main 1995

Web links

• Article about Karin Graf (as a literary agent) from "Welt vom April 24, 2005, accessed April 26, 2011
• Karin Graf as the contact person for fiction for the Graf & Graf agency
• Karin Graf : On the "translators dispute " because of Lemprière's dictionary , documentation, in: Journal "Der Translators", Association of German-speaking Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ. Volume 27, No. 2, pp. 13f. (= SFB ), Commentary ("Journal im III."), January 7, 1993 (Graf took position for Haefs)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.pen-deutschland.de/de/pen-zentrum-deutschland/lösungen/#people-G