Iain Galbraith

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Iain Galbraith lives in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has published extensively as a poet and literary translator and won several prizes for his work, including the Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation (2015), the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (2016), and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant (2017).

Sometimes a Single Leaf by Esther Dischereit
By Esther Dischereit

Esther Dischereit
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Mürtüz Yolcu (Enver) and Mansou Ciss (Otello) producing the radio play Blumen für Otello, April 9, 2014 / Photo by Sandro Most courtesy of Deutschlandradio Author’s note: Flowers…
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964–2001, W. G. Sebald
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Iain Galbraith, tr. London / New York. Hamish Hamilton / Random House. 2011 / 2012. ISBN 9780241144732 / 9781400068906 We know enough about translation to know that the poems of W. G. Sebald’s Acr…