Shelley Laura Frisch (born January 1952) is an American literary translator from German to English. She is best known for her translations of biographies, most notably of Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Marlene Dietrich/Leni Riefenstahl (dual biography).[1][2]

Biography

Born in New York City, Frisch now lives in Princeton, New Jersey. She received a Ph.D. in Germanic languages and literature from Princeton University in 1981 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Speculations of the origin of language and German Romanticism."[3] She taught at Bucknell University and Columbia University (where she was Executive Editor of Germanic Review), then served as Chair of the Bi-College German Department at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges until turning to translation full-time in the mid-1990s. In addition to her translation work, she co-directs international translation workshops with Karen Nölle,[4] and serves on several juries to award translation prizes, e.g., the Kurt and Helen Wolff Translation Prize.[5]

Awards and honors

Publications

Frisch has written and lectured widely on themes pertaining to literature, cinema, and exile. Her book, The Lure of the Linguistic, was published by Holmes & Meier in 2004.

Selected Book Translations

References

  1. ^ "Six Questions for Shelley Frisch on Reiner Stach and Franz Kafka". CR. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  2. ^ "January 2017: Shelley Frisch *81 on Voice in Translation". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  3. ^ Frisch, Shelley Laura (1981). Speculations of the origin of language and German Romanticism.
  4. ^ Frisch, Shelley. "The Translator Relay: Shelley Frisch - Words Without Borders". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  5. ^ Goethe-Institut New York (2017-07-25), Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize 2017 Jury Statement and Laudation, retrieved 2018-08-14
  6. ^ "2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist announced". Warwick Prize News. 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  7. ^ "Congratulations to Shelley Frisch, 2014 Winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize". Princeton University Press Blog. 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  8. ^ "Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly..." Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2018-08-14.