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Philip Boehm

Polish English

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He has translated more than thirty books and plays by Polish and German writers such as Hanna Krall, Herta Müller, and Stefan Chwin. He also works as a stage director and playwright: produced works include Mixtitlan, The Death of Atahualpa and Return of the Bedbug. He is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow and a three-time recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Other awards include prizes from the Polish Book Institute, PEN America, the Goethe Institute, and the US-Mexico Fund for Culture. He is the founding Artistic Director of Upstream Theater in St. Louis, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Translations

  • Garofalo Olivier, Don’t Wait for the Marlboro Man.
  • Levy-Daniel Héctor, Bitter Fruit.
  • Alexander Boschwitz Ulrich, The Passenger.
  • Grillparzer Franz (after Goethe). Egmont
  • Janko Anna, A Little Annihilation.
  • Koestler Arthur, Darkness at Noon.
  • Bachmann Ingeborg, Malina.
  • Wunnicke Christine, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura.
  • Trojanow Ilija, The Lamentations of Zeno.
  • Müller Herta, Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall.
  • Pradelski Minka, Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman.
  • Müller Herta, The Hunger Angel.
  • von Rezzori Gregor, An Ermine in Czernopol
  • Laragione Lucia, Cooking with Elisa.
  • Müller Herta, Speech on occasion of the Nobel Prize.
  • Lupa Krystian after Thomas Bernhard. Kalkwerk (The LimeWorks).
  • Villqist Ingmar, Helver’s Night
  • Hein Christoph, Settlement.
  • Genazino Wilhelm, The Flower Ball by Sigrid Laube.
  • Chwin Stefan, Death in Danzig.
  • The Günter Grass Reader (with others).
  • Hein Christoph, Willenbrock.
  • Ostermaier Albert,
  • Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto. Michał Grynberg.
  • Müller Herta (with Michael Hulse). The Appointment.
  • Brecht Bertolt, In the Jungle of the City.
  • Spengler Tilman, Spinal Discord.
  • Fink Ida (with Francine Prose.) Traces.
  • Schneider Peter, Couplings.
  • Schami Rafik, Damascus Nights.
  • Hein Christoph. The Tango Player.
  • Kafka Franz,Letters to Milena.

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