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| Born | 2 January 1946 Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia |
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| Nationality | Swiss |
| Genre | Prose, poetry |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Notable works | Mehr Meer (2009) |
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Ilma Rakusa (born 2 January 1946) is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
Ilma Rakusa was born in 1946 in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia to a Slovenian father and a Hungarian mother. She spent her early childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana and Trieste. In 1951, her family moved to Zürich, Switzerland. [1] Ilma Rakusa attended the Volksschule and the Gymnasium in Zürich. After the Matura, she studied Slavic and Romance Languages and Literature in Zürich, Paris and Leningrad between 1965 and 1971. [2]
In 1971, she was awarded a doctorate for her thesis titled Studien zum Motiv der Einsamkeit in der russischen Literatur, about themes of loneliness in Russian literature. From 1971 to 1977, she was a Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Slavic Seminar at the University of Zurich (UZH). From 1977 to 2006, she worked at UZH as a Lehrbeauftragter . [2] [3]
In 1977, Rakusa authored her first book, a collection of poems titled Wie Winter. She has since published numerous collections of poems, collected short stories and essays. Rakusa works as a translator from French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German. [1] She has translated works by authors including the French novelist Marguerite Duras, the Russian writer Aleksey Remizov, the Hungarian author Imre Kertész, the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva and the Serbo-Croatian Danilo Kiš. [4] Rakusa also works as a journalist ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Die Zeit ). [1] Rakusa's novel Mehr Meer (2009) has been translated into many languages and received the Swiss Book Prize in 2009. [4]
Rakusa has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since 1996 [1] and the jury of the Zuger Übersetzer-Stipendium . [5] In 2010/2011, she was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. [1]
Today, Ilma Rakusa lives as a freelance writer in Zürich. [6]
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