Miguel Sáenz
Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz (born August 7, 1932 in Larache , Spanish-Morocco ) is a Spanish translator and writer.
Life
Miguel Sáenz was born in Morocco in 1932 as the son of an officer and spent his childhood and youth in North Africa: in Tétouan , Tangier , Sidi Ifni and in the Spanish Sahara . He then studied German philology at the Complutense University in Madrid .
Sáenz has translated the works of several German-speaking authors into Spanish, including Franz Kafka , Bertolt Brecht , Günter Grass , WG Sebald and Thomas Bernhard . He also translated from English, including William Faulkner , Henry Roth and Salman Rushdie .
Honors
- Miguel Sáenz has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since 1999 .
- In 2002 he was the first Spanish translator to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Salamanca .
- In 2012 he was accepted into the Real Academia Española .
- In 2018, Sáenz was awarded the Friedrich Gundolf Prize for communicating German culture abroad .
Fonts (in selection, without translations)
- Tú, que naciste austriaca . Marte, Barcelona 1973 (prose pieces).
- Homenaje a FK Planeta, Barcelona 1975 (novel about Franz Kafka).
- Mensahib , Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Henares, 1981 ( short stories).
- Thomas Bernhard. Una biografía . Siruela, Madrid 1996.
- Egon Schiele . En cuerpo y alma . Editorial de Arte y Ciencia / Fundación Juan March, Madrid 2005. ISBN 978-84-89935-55-6 (texts from the catalog of the exhibition in the Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Club de Traductores Literarios de Buenos Aires: Fortea y Sáenz conversan , accessed on July 11, 2015.
- ↑ Miguel Saenz, RAE member
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sáenz, Miguel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz, Miguel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish German studies specialist, author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Larache , Morocco |