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Michael Hamburger (German-British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic)

  • Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger
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Hamburger, Michael
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Date of birth
1924-03-22
Place of birth
Berlin
Date of death
2007-06-07
Place of death
Suffolk

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Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted German-British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work in literary criticism. The publisher Paul Hamlyn (1926–2001) was his younger brother.

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