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Peter Wortsman speaking on Grimms’ Fairy Tales

October 25, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Hunter College

Peter Wortsman will be speaking on his translation of Grimms’ Fairy Tales as part of the 2018 Fairy Tales Speakers Series, at Hunter College. Peter Wortsman was a Fulbright Fellow in 1973, a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellow in 1974, and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010. His writing has been honored with the 1985 Beard’s Fund Short Story Award, the 2008 Gertje Potash-Suhr Prosapreis of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year in the Solas Awards Competition, and a 2014 Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY).

Wortsman’s numerous translations from the German include Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter AltenbergTravel Pictures by Heinrich Heine, Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil, Peter Schelmiel, The Man Who Sold His Shadow by Adelbert von Chamisso, Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist, and Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka, many of which are published by Archipelago Books. He edited and translated an anthology, Tales of the German Imagination: From the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, from Penguin Classics. He works as a medical and travel journalist.

Details

Date:
October 25, 2018
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Organizer

Hunter College

Venue

Hunter College
Leona & Marcy Chanin Language Center, Screening Room, B126 Hunter West
New York, NY 10065 United States
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Website:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/main/