Ad Policy Illustration by Ludwig Hurtado.. By just about any measure, Damion Searls, an American translator of German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, is one of the leading practitioners of his art.

The annual award is the world's largest prize for a single book of poetry written in or translated into English. Canadian poet and writer Margaret Atwood was also awarded the $25,000 lifetime ...

Tim Mohr in 2016. Working as a club D.J. in Berlin in the 1990s, he said, helped him learn a form of street German that set him up to work as a translator.

The first bilingual dictionary book, Vocabularius ex quo, was a German-Latin set of words published in 1467, while clay tablets containing lists of works in Sumerian and Akkadian date back as early as ...

TORONTO — As German writer Durs Grünbein accepted the Griffin Poetry Prize at a ceremony in Toronto on Wednesday night, he pointed to the Ukrainian flag ribbon pinned to his lapel and launched ...