Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright

Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright ( born October 3, 1966 in Baltimore as Elizabeth ( Ann ) Oehlkers ) is an American translator.

Life

Elizabeth Wright Oehlkers transmits texts of contemporary German authors, especially poetry into English. In 1996 she earned an MFA in literary translation at the University of Arkansas. This was preceded by a study period from September 1994 to July 1995 in Berlin, where she the German -Turkish writer Zafer Şenocak and Zehra Cirák translated among others. Then she taught in Arkansas and at Boston University and Oberlin College. With Zafer Şenocak they were bilingual readings in Memphis, New York, Cambridge, San Francisco and Los Angeles. She has received several awards and grants (including NEA and ALTA ).

Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright works in Boston in an agency for medical translations and is married to the poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright since 1999. It is located in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Translations

• Ernst Peter Fischer: Beauty and the Beast. The Aesthetic Moment in Science, 1999 ( Orig. The Beauty and the Beast Aesthetic Dimension in Science, 1997)
• Documentary by Harald Ortlieb about Zehra Cirák and object artist Jürgen Walter, 2007 (translated together with a couple Marilya Veteto Reese )
• Zafer Şenocak: Door Languages, 2008
• Valzhyna Mort: Factory of Tears. Port Townsend (Washington, USA): Copper Canyon Press, 2008 ( from the Belarusian zus with Franz Wright)
• Translations for literary journals and anthologies, including New European Poets Anthology of World Literature of the 20th Century and Green Integer. Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century