Miguel Sáenz
Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz (Larache, Spanish Morocco, 1932) is a Spanish translator.
Biography
Born in colonial Morocco, he was son of a military officer. He studied German philology at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He specialized in translating German authors into Spanish: Bertolt Brecht, Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard (of whom he also wrote a biography). He has also translated from English: William Faulkner, Henry Roth, Salman Rushdie.
Since 1999 he is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. In 2002 he was the first Spanish translator to receive an honoris causa diploma from the University of Salamanca.[1] Sáenz was elected to Seat b of the Real Academia Española on 22 November 2012, he took up his seat on 23 June 2013.[2]
References
- ^ Miguel Saenz, RAE Member Template:Es icon
- ^ "Miguel Sáenz" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014.
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