Esther Kinsky

Esther Kinsky speaking at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2018

Esther Kinsky (born 12 September 1956 in Engelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German literary translator and the author of novels and poetry. During 2016 to 2017 she was a lecturer in poetry for two semesters at the University of Bonn.

Life and works

Esther Kinsky grew up in Bonn and read Slavonic studies at Bonn and later Toronto universities. Since 1986 she has worked as a literary translator from the Polish, English and Russian languages into German. Since 2007 she has been noted primarily as the author of prose and poetry. After spending some years in London, she settled in Berlin and Battonya, Hungary.

Amongst her noted works are the novel Am Fluss, published by Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014[1] and appearing in English in January 2018 as River, translated by Iain Galbraith and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.[2][3]

Kinsky has received many awards both for her literary work and her translations, including in 2015 the Kranichsteiner Literature Prize and, for Am Fluss, the Preis der SWR-Bestenliste of Baden-Baden[4].

From the summer semester of 2016 she held the annual Thomas Kling lectureship in Poetry at the University of Bonn.

In 2018 her latest novel, Hain: Geländeroman was published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin. This is not yet available in English. Characterised as ‘nature writing’, this work won the Belletristik (Belles Lettres) category of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, 2018.[5]

Kinsky was married to the German-Scottish literary translator Martin Chalmers (1948–2014).

References

  1. ↑ Am Fluss, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-95757-056-7
  2. ↑ River, translated by Iain Galbraith, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 978-1-91069-529-6
  3. ↑ "River by Esther Kinsky review – an outsider's view of London's edgelands". The Guardian. March 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Esther Kinsky muses on a river in England". The Economist. January 18, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Preisträger - Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse -". www.preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de.
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