The life, work and legacy of poet-translator Michael Hamburger
An evening of discussion and readings on the life, work and legacy of poet-translator Michael Hamburger between translators Karen Leeder, Iain Galbraith and Jen Calleja.
Michael Hamburger, whose archive came to the British Library after his death in 2007, translated many of the great German and Austrian writers – among them, Friedrich Hölderlin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Georg Trakl and W G Sebald, – and is a major poet in his own right. Born in Berlin in 1924 to German Jewish parents, his family fled Nazi Germany for Britain in 1933, and he went on to become a crucial figure in British and German letters.
This evening of readings and discussion celebrates the life, work and legacy of Hamburger, with contemporary poets and translators exploring the variety of ways they’ve engaged with his work, and how he’s inspired their own.
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