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Mike Mitchell

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Mike Mitchell

Mike Mitchell has translated some thirty books, including Simplicissimus by Grimmelshausen and all the novels of Gustav Meyrink. He won the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck German translation prize.

Articles by Mike Mitchell

From “Fever”

By Friedrich Glauser

The only sound to be heard in the little room was the snoring of the landlord interspersed with the quiet tick-tock of the clock on the wall...

Translated from German by Mike Mitchell

On Literature

By Navid Kermani

But what could he have done? my acquaintance asked.

Translated from Persian by Mike Mitchell

From “The Shadowboxer”

Cut off by the Wall, the line lost its raison d'être decades ago and is reverting to scrub and desert.

Translated from German by Mike Mitchell