Ewald Osers

He translated several important Czech poetry works of the 20th century into English, including Jaroslav Seifert, Vítězslav Nezval, Miroslav Holub and Jan Skácel. He also translated several German-language authors such as Thomas Bernhard, as well as Macedonian-language books (Mateja Matevski), poetry of the Silesian poet Óndra Łysohorsky, and two major Slovak poets, Miroslav Válek and Milan Rúfus.

• 1971: Schlegel-Tieck Prize, for Scorched Earth by Paul Carell • 1987: European Poetry Translation Prize, for The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert

Works • Arrive Where We Started (poems), 1995 • Snows of Yesteryear (memoir), 2007 Translations • Modern Czech Poetry: An Anthology, 1945 (with J.K. Montgomery) • Richard Strauss, A Working Friendship: The Correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1961 (with H. Hammelmann) • Paul Carell, Scorched Earth: Hitler's War on Russia, Vol. 2, 1970 • Three Czech Poets: Vítězslav Nezval, Antonín Bartušek, Josef Hanzlík, 1971 (with G. Theiner) • Óndra Łysohorsky, Selected Poems, 1971 • Reiner Kunze, With the Volume Turned Down, and Other Poems, 1973 • Contemporary German Poetry, 1976 • Rose Ausländer, Selected Poems, 1977 • Rudolf Langer, Wounded No Doubt: Selected Poems, 1979 • Nahapet Kuchak, A Hundred and One Hayrens, 1979 • Jaroslav Seifert, The Plague Column, 1979 • Walter Helmut Fritz, Without Remission: Selected Poems, 1981 • Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler, 1983 • Jaroslav Seifert, An Umbrella from Piccadilly, 1983 • Miroslav Holub, On the Contrary, and Other Poems, 1984 • Nikola Vaptsarov, Nineteen Poems, 1984 • Voices from across the Water: Translations from Twelve Languages, 1985 • Karel Čapek, War with the Newts, 1985, new trans., 1990 • Lyubomir Levchev, Stolen Fire: Selected Poems, 1986 • The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert, 1986 (with G. Gibian) • Miroslav Holub, The Fly, 1987 (with J. Milner and G. Theiner) • Jaroslav Cejka, Michael Cernik, and Karel Sys, New Czech Poetry, 1988 • Vladimír Janovic, The House of the Tragic Poet, 1988 • Mateja Matevski, Footprints of the Wind: Selected Poems, 1988 • Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein's Nephew, 1986 • Thomas Bernhard, Cutting Timber, 1988 • Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters, 1989 • Thomas Bernhard, The Cheap-Eaters, 1990 • Miroslav Holub, Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations, 1990 (with I. Milner, J. Milner, and Theiner) • Rüdiger Safranski, Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy, 1990 • Thomas Bernhard, Yes, 1991 • Ivan Klíma, Love and Garbage, 1991 • Josef Hanzlík, Selected Poems, 1992 (with I. Milner and J. Milner) • Michael Krüger, The End of the Novel, 1992 • Konrad Spindler, The Man in the Ice, 1994 • Heinz Piontek, Selected Poems, 1994 • Miroslav Válek, The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Selected Poems, 1996 • Albrecht Fölsing, Albert Einstein: A Biography, 1997 • Rüdiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil, 1997 • Jan Skácel, Banned Man: Selected Poems, 2001 • Vítězslav Nezval Edison: Poem with Five Cantos, 2003 • Milan Rúfus, And That's the Truth! Poems in English & Slovak, 2005 • Vítězslav Nezval Prague With Fingers of Rain, 2009