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Maria Carlsson-Augstein (born 1937) is a former German female literary translator. She was fluent in English and has translated numerous English literary works in German language.[ citation needed ]
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Maria Carlsson-Augstein (born 1937) is a former German female literary translator. She was fluent in English and has translated numerous English literary works in German language.[ citation needed ]
Maria Carlsson was born in 1937. She was married to German journalist Hans-Joachim Sperr. After Sperr's death, she married Rudolf Augstein in 1968. They had two children, Franziska Augstein and Jakob Augstein. They got divorced in 1970.[ citation needed ] Following her ex-husband's death in 2002, she informed her son that his biological father was in fact novelist Martin Walser. [1]
Carlsson has been working as a translator of literary works which are derived from the English language since the 1950s, and has translated numerous John Updike popular literary works such as Memories of the time under Ford, The Party in the evening, I never was happy, Golf dreams. [2] [3] [ clarification needed ]
In 1994, she was awarded the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize and in 2002 she received Helmut M. Braem Translator Prize for her outstanding translations of the literary works from English to German language.[ citation needed ]
Erich Maria Remarque was a German-born novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre, and was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success to relocate to Switzerland and the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.
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