Iain Galbraith
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Shearsman Titles
Selected Poems of Alfred Kolleritsch
Selected Poems of Peter Waterhouse
About the translator
Born in Glasgow in 1956, Iain Galbraith studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz, where he taught for several years. He has edited works by Stevenson, Hogg, Scott, Boswell and Conrad, and contributed essays to many books and journals in the UK, France and Germany. His German versions of British and Irish plays have been performed at more than a hundred theatres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and he is a widely-published translator of German-language writing, especially poetry, into English, winning the John Dryden Prize for Literary Translation in 2004.
His own poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including the TLS, New Writing, Best Scottish Poems 2005, New Writing Scotland, PN Review and The Allotment: New Lyric Poets (2006). Recent book publications include the poetry anthologies Intime Weiten. XXV Schottische Gedichte (2006) and The Night Begins with a Question. XXV Austrian Poems 1978-2002 (2007), as well as a German edition of Michael Hamburger's prose writings, of which the first volume is Pro Domo. Selbstauskünfte, Rückblicke und andere Prosa (2007).