Ewald Osers

Ewald Osers (13 May 1917 – 11 October 2011) was a Czech translator and poet born in Prague, Austria-Hungary.

Career
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 Ondra Lysohorsky, and two major Slovak poets, Miroslav Válek and Milan Rúfus.

Selected bibliography
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
 * Milan Rúfus, And That's the Truth! Poems in English & Slovak, 2005

Awards

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