# 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
* Vítězslav Nezval Edison: Poem with Five Cantos, 2003
* Milan Rúfus, And That's the Truth! Poems in English & Slovak, 2005
* Vítězslav Nezval Prague With Fingers of Rain, 2009

## Awards

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