Philip Boehm
St. Louis, Missouri
TRANSLATES: Polish, German
Philip Boehm is the author of numerous translations from Polish and German, including works by Franz Kafka, Ida Fink, and Christoph Hein. Based in St. Louis, he is also a playwright and theater director. His original works include Mixtitlan and Soul of a Clone.
In 2004, Philip Boehm received a PEN Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Christoph Hein's Landnahme. An excerpt from his work was printed in PEN America
6: Metamorphoses. Most recently, Boehm received the 2006 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation from the German of A Woman in Berlin (Virago), an anonymous war diary of a woman living through the Russian occupation of Berlin.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Translations
Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka. Schocken, 1990.
Malina, Ingeborg Bachmann. Holmes & Meier, 1990.
The Tango Player, Christoph Hein. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992.
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