Maria Carlsson

Maria Carlsson (also: Maria Carlsson-Augstein ; * around 1937 ) is a German literary translator .

Life

Maria Carlsson was married to the journalist Hans-Joachim Sperr until his death in 1963 . Then she was in a relationship with the publisher Rudolf Augstein . In 1964, their daughter Franziska Augstein was born. Her son Jakob Augstein (* 1967) comes from a liaison with Martin Walser . In 1968 Maria Carlsson and Rudolf Augstein married - they divorced in 1970.

Maria Carlsson has worked as a translator of works of fiction from English since the 1950s ; she has emerged primarily as a translator of the works of John Updike . In 1994 she was awarded the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize , and in 2002 the Helmut M. Braem Translator Prize.

Translations

• David Brett : Ultramarine. Reinbek near Hamburg 1970
• Lawrence Durrell : Balthazar. Hamburg 1959 (translated together with Gerda von Uslar)
• Lawrence Durrell: Justine. Hamburg 1958
• Lawrence Durrell: Mountolive , Reinbek near Hamburg 1960 (translated together with Gerda von Uslar)
• William Faulkner : When I was dying. Reinbek near Hamburg 2012
• James Hanley : Forever and ever. Reinbek near Hamburg 1966
• Paul Herr : The journey shouldn't end. Frankfurt am Main 1964
• David H. Lawrence : Lady Chatterley . Reinbek near Hamburg 1960
• Mary McCarthy : The Magic Circle. Munich [u. a.] 1967
• Carson McCullers : The square root of wonderful. Frankfurt am Main 1962
• Yehudi Menuhin : About the king, the cat and the fiddle. Berlin 1983
• David Mercer : Flint. Zurich 1971
• Vladimir Nabokov : Lolita. Reinbek near Hamburg 1964 (translated together with Helen Hessel )
• Reynolds Price : A whole man. Frankfurt am Main 1967
• John Updike : Married couples , Reinbek near Hamburg 1969
• John Updike: Memories of the time under Ford. Reinbek near Hamburg 1994
• John Updike: The party in the evening. Frankfurt am Main 1961
• John Updike: Towards the end of time. Reinbek near Hamburg 2000
• John Updike: Gertrude and Claudius. Reinbek near Hamburg 2001
• John Updike: Collected Stories. Reinbek near Hamburg 1971
• John Updike: I've never been happier. Frankfurt am Main 1966
• John Updike: Golf Dreams. Reinbek near Hamburg 1999
• John Updike: God and the Wilmots , Reinbek near Hamburg 1998
• John Updike: Rabbit Heart. Frankfurt am Main 1962
• John Updike: The Witches of Eastwick . Reinbek near Hamburg 1985
• John Updike: The man who switched to soprano. Reinbek near Hamburg 1997
• John Updike: Rabbit, a return. Reinbek near Hamburg 2002
• John Updike: Rabbit at rest . Reinbek near Hamburg 1992
• John Updike: Self-Awareness. Reinbek near Hamburg 1990
• John Updike: Find my face. Reinbek near Hamburg 2005
• John Updike: My Father's Tears and Other Tales. Reinbek near Hamburg 2011
• John Updike: The long way for two. Reinbek near Hamburg 1982
• John Updike: How was it really. Reinbek near Hamburg 2004
• John Updike: The Widows of Eastwick. Reinbek near Hamburg 2009 (translated together with Angela Praesent )
• John Updike: The Centaur. Frankfurt am Main 1966
• Edward A. Whitehead : Alpha Beta. Berlin 1975

literature

• Martin Walser, Jakob Augstein: Life literally. A conversation. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-498-00680-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Carlsson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Laudation for Maria Carlsson on the occasion of the award of the Helmut M. Braem Prize 2002