Idris Frederick Parry

Idris Frederick Parry (5 December 1916 – 25 January 2008) was a Welsh Germanist, writer, broadcaster, and translator. Parry's academic interests were broad, but he drew particular focus on the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. At Manchester, he was the dissertation supervisor of W. G. Sebald and taught Stevie Davies.

Publications Idris Parry, Animals of Silence: Essays on Art, Nature and Folk-Tale (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972). Idris Parry, Hand to Mouth and Other Essays (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1981). Idris Parry, Speak Silence (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1989). Franz Kafka, The Trial, trans. by Idris Parry (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994).