Ursula Graefe

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Ursula Gräfe (* 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German author and literary translator.

Ursula Gräfe studied Japanese , English and American studies at the University of Frankfurt . Since 1988 she has been working full-time as a translator of literary works, mainly from Japanese as well as from English and American.

Ursula Gräfe is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ. She lives in Frankfurt am Main.

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Translations

Books translated by Ursula Gräfe have been published by other publishers as licensed editions in addition to the German first edition.

  • Jane Austen : I am impatient. Letters to Cassandra . Selected, translated from English a. with an afterword by Ursula Gräfe. Insel-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 2013
  • Deborah Boliver Boehm : Zen and the Art of Loving a Monk. [From d. Amerik.] 1998
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : What is Hinduism . [From d. Engl.] Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 2006
  • Mohammed Hanif : The box of exploding mangoes . 2009
  • Keigo Higashino : Suspicious Lovers . Velcro-Cotta 2012
  • Keigo Higashino: holy murderess . Velcro-Cotta 2014
  • Keigo Higashino: Bad intentions . Velcro-Cotta 2015
  • Takashi Hiraide : The guest in the garden . Insel Verlag 2015
  • Yasushi Inoue : The Death of the Tea Master . Suhrkamp Verlag 2007
  • Megumi Iwasa: Greetings, your giraffe . Moritz Verlag 2017
  • Joyce Lepra-Champman: The scent of sake . Novel. [From d. Amerik.] 2011
  • Hiromi Kawakami : The sky is blue, the earth is white. A Lovestory. Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Hanser 2008
  • Hiromi Kawakami: Mr. Nakano and the women . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Hanser 2009
  • Hiromi Kawakami: It's warmer by the sea: a love story. Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Hanser 2010.
  • Hiromi Kawakami: See you next spring . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Hanser 2013
  • Haruki Murakami : Naoko's smile . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001
  • Haruki Murakami: Underground War . DuMont Buchverlag 2002
  • Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart . DuMont Buchverlag 2002
  • Haruki Murakami: After the quake . DuMont Buchverlag 2003
  • Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the beach . DuMont Buchverlag 2004
  • Haruki Murakami: Tony Takitani . DuMont Buchverlag 2005
  • Haruki Murakami: Afterdark . DuMont Buchverlag 2005
  • Haruki Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman . Stories. DuMont Book Publishing 2006
  • Haruki Murakami: What I mean when I talk about running . DuMont Buchverlag 2008
  • Haruki Murakami: 1Q84 . Book 1 & 2 . DuMont Buchverlag 2010
  • Haruki Murakami: 1Q84 . Book 3 . DuMont Buchverlag 2011
  • Haruki Murakami: South of the border, west of the sun . DuMont Book Publishing 2013
  • Haruki Murakami: The Pilgrimage Years of Colorless Mr. Tazaki . DuMont Book Publishing 2014.
  • Haruki Murakami: The Eerie Library . DuMont Book Publishing 2014.
  • Haruki Murakami: By men who don't have women . DuMont Book Publishing 2014.
  • Haruki Murakami: When the Wind Sings / Pinball 1973 . DuMont Buchverlag 2015.
  • Haruki Murakami: Birthday Girl , story. Illustrated by Kat Menschik . DuMont, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-9858-9 .
  • Haruki Murakami: The Assassination of the Commendatore . DuMont Book Publishing 2018.
  • Ryu Murakami : In the miso soup . Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2006.
  • Ryū Murakami : Coin Locker Babies . Septime Verlag 2015.
  • Kiharu Nakamura : Memoirs of a Geisha . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Luebbe 1997.
  • RK Narayan : Graduation exam , Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-458-17183-5 .
  • Kent Nerburn : The Last Sacred Things. In the footsteps of Indian wisdom , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-455-11197-2 .
  • Maura O'Halloran: In the heart of silence. [From d. Amerik.] 1995
  • Tomoko Ohmura: Please hire! Picture book. Moritz Verlag 2012
  • Tomoko Ohmura: Hurry up, little sloth! Picture book. Moritz Verlag 2016
  • Tomoko Ohmura: Why can't we continue here? Picture book. Moritz Verlag 2018
  • Hikaru Okuizumi : The memory of the stones . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2000.
  • Kenzaburo Oe : Quiet days . Translated by Wolfgang E. Schlecht and Ursula Gräfe with the assistance of Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Insel Verlag 1994.
  • Yōko Ogawa : Hotel Iris . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Liebeskind 2001.
  • Yōko Ogawa: The ring finger . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Liebeskind 2002.
  • Yōko Ogawa: Swimming pool in the rain. Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Liebeskind 2003.
  • Yōko Ogawa: Love on the edge of paper. Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Liebeskind 2004.
  • Yōko Ogawa: The Museum of Silence . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Liebeskind 2005.
  • Yōko Ogawa: The Broken Butterfly. Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Liebeskind 2007.
  • Durian Sukegawa : cherry blossoms and red beans . DuMont, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9812-1 .
  • Yamada Taichi : Summer with Strangers . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Goldmann 2007.
  • Yamada Taichi: I dreamed of flying for a long time . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Goldmann 2008.
  • Hitonari Tsuji : Waiting for the sun . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Piper 2006.
  • Hitonari Tsuji: The White Buddha . Translated together with Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler. Piper 2008.
  • OV Vijayan: The Legends of Khasak . Novel. [From d. Indian Engl.]. 2004.

Prizes and awards

In 2004, Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler received the Japan Foundation's translation prize for the volume of short stories »Swimming Pool in the Rain« by the author Yōko Ogawa .

In 2019 Ursula Gräfe received the Noma Award for Translation of Japanese Literature 2019 together with Nora Bierich.

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personal data
SURNAME Count, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main