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Edna McCown

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Edna McCown

Edna McCown translates works of fiction and nonfiction from the German, including Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer and Leni Riefenstahl: A Life by Jürgen Trimborn. Among the authors she has translated are Gert Hofmann, Thomas Hürlimann, Lilian Faschinger, Alfred Döblin, and Saša Stanišić....

She holds a PhD in German literature and has served on the juries of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and the PEN Translation Prize. In 2004 she was a founding member of the annual New Literature from Europe Festival, initiated by the Goethe-Institut.

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Articles by Edna McCown

June 2011 The Queer Issue Ii Catharina Margaretha Linck Elke R Steiner Page Thumbnail
February 2007 Worth Ten Thousand Words A World Of Graphics Käte Frankenthal An Activist Physician Elke R Steiner Page Thumbnail