Curt Meyer-Clason
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Curt Meyer-Clason is a German writer and translator.
After graduating from high school, Meyer-Clason worked as a commercial clerk in Bremen
and from 1936 as an independent businessman in Argentina and Brazil. From 1942 to 1944, he was interned in Brazil as an illegal alien. In 1955 he went back to Germany and worked as a freelance book editor in Munich. From the sixties, his work concentrated on working on translations of Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American books. From 1969 to 1976 Meyer-Clason acted as head of the Goethe Institute in Lisbon.
Curt Meyer-Clason is a member of the Association of German Writers, the PEN
Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a corresponding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro. He received the following awards: 1972 Translation Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature, 1978 Translation Prize of the Cultural Committee of the Federal Association of German Industry and in 1996 the Federal Merit 1st Class.
As of 2008, Meyer-Clason was living in Munich and in 2011 he turned 101
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After graduating from high school, Meyer-Clason worked as a commercial clerk in Bremen
Bremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
and from 1936 as an independent businessman in Argentina and Brazil. From 1942 to 1944, he was interned in Brazil as an illegal alien. In 1955 he went back to Germany and worked as a freelance book editor in Munich. From the sixties, his work concentrated on working on translations of Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American books. From 1969 to 1976 Meyer-Clason acted as head of the Goethe Institute in Lisbon.
Curt Meyer-Clason is a member of the Association of German Writers, the PEN
International PEN
PEN International , the worldwide association of writers, was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere....
Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a corresponding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro. He received the following awards: 1972 Translation Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature, 1978 Translation Prize of the Cultural Committee of the Federal Association of German Industry and in 1996 the Federal Merit 1st Class.
As of 2008, Meyer-Clason was living in Munich and in 2011 he turned 101
Centenarian
A centenarian is a person who is or lives beyond the age of 100 years. Because current average life expectancies across the world are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. Much rarer, a supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only...
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Works
- Literatura alemana actual, Asunción 1969
- Erstens die Freiheit, Wuppertal 1978
- Portugiesische Tagebücher, Königstein/Ts. 1979
- Äquator, Bergisch Gladbach 1986
- Unterwegs, Bergisch Gladbach 1989
- Die Menschen sterben nicht, sie werden verzaubert, München [u. a.] 1990
- Die große Insel, Reicheneck 1995
- Der Unbekannte, München 1999
- Bin gleich wieder da, Weitra 2000