Ewald Osers

Ewald Osers (13 May 1917 – 11 October 2011) was a Czech translator and poet born in Prague, Austria-Hungary.

Career

He translated several important Czech poetry works of the 20th century into English, including Jaroslav Seifert, Vítězslav Nezval, Miroslav Holub and Jan Skácel. He also translated several German-language authors such as Thomas Bernhard, as well as Macedonian-language books (Mateja Matevski), poetry of the Silesian poet Óndra Łysohorsky, and two major Slovak poets, Miroslav Válek and Milan Rúfus.

Selected bibliography Works

Arrive Where We Started (poems), 1995 Snows of Yesteryear (memoir), 2007

Translations

Modern Czech Poetry: An Anthology, 1945 (with J.K. Montgomery) Richard Strauss, A Working Friendship: The Correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1961 (with H. Hammelmann) Paul Carell, Scorched Earth: Hitler's War on Russia, Vol. 2, 1970 Three Czech Poets: Vítězslav Nezval, Antonín Bartušek, Josef Hanzlík, 1971 (with G. Theiner) Óndra Łysohorsky, Selected Poems, 1971 Reiner Kunze, With the Volume Turned Down, and Other Poems, 1973 Contemporary German Poetry, 1976 Rose Ausländer, Selected Poems, 1977 Rudolf Langer, Wounded No Doubt: Selected Poems, 1979 Nahapet Kuchak, A Hundred and One Hayrens, 1979 Jaroslav Seifert, The Plague Column, 1979 Walter Helmut Fritz, Without Remission: Selected Poems, 1981 Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler, 1983 Jaroslav Seifert, An Umbrella from Piccadilly, 1983 Miroslav Holub, On the Contrary, and Other Poems, 1984 Nikola Vaptsarov, Nineteen Poems, 1984 Voices from across the Water: Translations from Twelve Languages, 1985 Karel Čapek, War with the Newts, 1985, new trans., 1990 Lyubomir Levchev, Stolen Fire: Selected Poems, 1986 The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert, 1986 (with G. Gibian) Miroslav Holub, The Fly, 1987 (with J. Milner and G. Theiner) Jaroslav Cejka, Michael Cernik, and Karel Sys, New Czech Poetry, 1988 Vladimír Janovic, The House of the Tragic Poet, 1988 Mateja Matevski, Footprints of the Wind: Selected Poems, 1988 Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein's Nephew, 1986 Thomas Bernhard, Cutting Timber, 1988 Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters, 1989 Thomas Bernhard, The Cheap-Eaters, 1990 Miroslav Holub, Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations, 1990 (with I. Milner, J. Milner, and Theiner) Rüdiger Safranski, Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy, 1990 Thomas Bernhard, Yes, 1991 Ivan Klíma, Love and Garbage, 1991 Josef Hanzlík, Selected Poems, 1992 (with I. Milner and J. Milner) Michael Krüger, The End of the Novel, 1992 Konrad Spindler, The Man in the Ice, 1994 Heinz Piontek, Selected Poems, 1994 Miroslav Válek, The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Selected Poems, 1996 Albrecht Fölsing, Albert Einstein: A Biography, 1997 Rüdiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil, 1997 Jan Skácel, Banned Man: Selected Poems, 2001 Vítězslav Nezval Edison: Poem with Five Cantos, 2003 Milan Rúfus, And That's the Truth! Poems in English & Slovak, 2005 Vítězslav Nezval Prague With Fingers of Rain, 2009

Awards 1971: Schlegel-Tieck Prize, for Scorched Earth by Paul Carell 1987: European Poetry Translation Prize, for The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert