Iain Galbraith studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz. He has published volumes of poetry and short prose and has translated poetry, fiction and plays from German into English and vice versa, including work by John Burnside, Reinhard Jirgl, Alice Oswald, Natascha Wodin, Esther Kinsky, Enda Walsh, Jan Wagner, Esther Dischereit, W. G. Sebald, Ulrike Draesner and Peter Handke. He has received numerous awards for translation, including the Stephen Spender Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize.Ritchie Robertson retired in 2021 as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of the Queen's College. His many books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1985), The Enlightenment: The Pursiuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (2020) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024), as well as books on Kafka and Goethe in OUP's Very Short Introductions series. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Iain Galbraith studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz. He has published volumes of poetry and short prose and has translated poetry, fiction and plays from German into English and vice versa, including work by John Burnside, Reinhard Jirgl, Alice Oswald, Natascha Wodin, Esther Kinsky, Enda Walsh, Jan Wagner, Esther Dischereit, W. G. Sebald, Ulrike Draesner and Peter Handke. He has received numerous awards for translation, including the Stephen Spender Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize.Ritchie Robertson retired in 2021 as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of the Queen's College. His many books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1985), The Enlightenment: The Pursiuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (2020) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024), as well as books on Kafka and Goethe in OUP's Very Short Introductions series. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Iain Galbraith studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz. He has published volumes of poetry and short prose and has translated poetry, fiction and plays from German into English and vice versa, including work by John Burnside, Reinhard Jirgl, Alice Oswald, Natascha Wodin, Esther Kinsky, Enda Walsh, Jan Wagner, Esther Dischereit, W. G. Sebald, Ulrike Draesner and Peter Handke. He has received numerous awards for translation, including the Stephen Spender Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize.Ritchie Robertson retired in 2021 as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of the Queen's College. His many books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1985), The Enlightenment: The Pursiuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (2020) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024), as well as books on Kafka and Goethe in OUP's Very Short Introductions series. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy.

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