Luis Sergio Krausz

Luis Sergio Krausz (* 1961 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian literary scholar .

Life

Krausz's grandparents emigrated from Europe to Brazil in 1925. Krausz studied classical philology and Hebrew at Columbia University , the University of Pennsylvania and in 1992 with Walter Burkert at the University of Zurich . He received his PhD in Jewish literature from the Universidade de São Paulo . Krausz worked as a freelance journalist, translator and editor and became a professor of Hebrew and Jewish literature at the University of São Paulo. Among his translations is The Piano Player by Elfriede Jelinek .

In 2013 he was awarded the “Prêmio Benvirá de Literatura” for his novel Desterro .

Krausz has two sons.

The Southern Cross (original title: Bazar Paraná ). Berlin / Leipzig: Hentrich & Hentrich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95565-340-8 .
Desterro: memórias em ruínas . Tordesilhas, São Paulo 2011.
- Exile. Memories in ruins . With an afterword by Márcio Seligmann-Silva . Translation from the Brazilian Portuguese by Manfred von Conta. Hentrich, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942271-81-3 .
Rituais crepusculares: Joseph Roth ea nostalgia austro-judaica . EDUSP: FAPESP, São Paulo 2008.
As musas poesia e divindade na Grécia arcaica . EDUSP, São Paulo 2007.
with Nancy Rozenchan: Exílio entre o Shtetl eo crepúsculo Joseph Roth eo judaísmo no fin-de-siècle austríaco . São Paulo 2006. Dissertation.

Michaela Metz: Flotsam from over there: Luis S. Krausz. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 19, 2013, p. 12.

personal data
SURNAME	Krausz, Luis Sergio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Krausz, Luis S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian literary scholar and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	São Paulo