Pociao

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Pociao is a German translator , especially for literature from English , as well as an author and publisher .

Career

Pociao studied English , German and comparative literature in Bonn , after spending some time in London and New York . In the 1970s she worked for the Göttingen publishing house Expanded Media Editions and set up Pociao's Books as a distributor for American experimental literature ; In the mid-1990s she founded the Sans Soleil publishing house in Bonn together with the composer Ulrike Haage .

As an author, Pociao appeared in Gasolin 23 and as a radio feature author, among others , as an editor for Soft Need or Amok Koma (with Udo Breger , Jürgen Ploog and Walter Hartmann).

Authors translated by Pociao include Laurie Anderson , Tash Aw , Bill Ayers , Jane Bowles , Paul Bowles , William S. Burroughs , Nicholas Christopher, Don DeLillo , Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald , Vivian Gornick, Kent Haruf , Adam Haslett , Laurie Lee, Jeremy Reed, Tom Robbins , Patti Smith , Gore Vidal , Evelyn Waugh , Robert Anton Wilson .

Pociao lives in Bonn and Tangier (as of 2018).

Selected translations

  • Tom Robbins: Tibetan peach strudel. The real story of a fantastic life. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-26955-4 .
  • Evelyn Waugh : Reunion with Brideshead . Diogenes , Zurich 2013.
  • Evelyn Waugh: A handful of dust. Diogenes, Zurich 2014.
  • Evelyn Waugh: Lust and Vice. Diogenes, Zurich 2015.
  • Robert Anton Wilson : Schrödinger's cat (novel trilogy) . Sphinx Verlag , Basel 1981/1982.
  • Paul Bowles: Song of the Insects. Goldmann, Munich 1988.
  • Paul Bowles: Collected Stories. Goldmann, Munich, 2000.
  • Paul Bowles: Restless, Goldmann. Munich 1990.
  • William S. Burroughs: Last Words. Sans Soleil, Bonn 2001.
  • Patti Smith: The Coral Sea. bilgerverlag, Zurich 2014 (with Walter Hartman).
  • Laurie Lee: Cider with Rosie. bilgerverlag, Zurich 2014 (with Walter Hartmann).
  • Russell Greenan: In Boston? Schirmer-Graf, Munich 2007.
  • Jeremy Reed: Beach Café. bilgerverlag, Zurich 2016.
  • Kent Haruf: Our souls by night. Diogenes, Zurich 2017.
  • Kent Haruf: Afterglow. Diogenes, Zurich 2019.
  • Zelda Fitzgerald: A waltz for me. Diogenes, Zurich 2013.
  • Rebecca Hunt: Neverland. Luchterhand, Munich 2017
  • Jeremy Reed: The Nice. bilgerverlag, Zurich 2018

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "I probably wouldn't have been in the same room with Waugh for five minutes." An interview with the translator pociao. at diogenesverlag.tumblr.com, accessed February 7, 2016
  2. ↑ z. B. here: Bill Ayers Revisited , Deutschlandfunk , March 2, 2012, accessed on February 7, 2016
  3. ^ Pociao on goodreads.com , accessed February 7, 2016
  4. ↑ Pociao wins the DeLillo translation competition of the German Translation Fund and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , buchmarkt.de, October 21, 2017, accessed on October 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Pociao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollanda, Sylvia de; Hollanda, Pociao de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary translator, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century