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M Chalmers

Translations by M Chalmers

Aristocrat, the: Boetius Von Orlamunde [Buy Direct]

by Ernst Weiss
Translated by M Chalmers
Original title: Der Aristocrat

Ernst Weiss was a Jewish doctor born in Moravia, now in the Czech Republic, when it was still part of the Habsburg Empire. He lived in Prague, Vienna and Berlin and was a close friend of Franz Kafka. In 1934 he went into exile in Paris, where he died in 1940. (more...)

Women as Lovers [Buy Direct]

by Elfriede Jelinek
Translated by M Chalmers
Original title: Die Liebhaberinnen

Children and Fools [Buy Direct]

by Erich Fried
Translated by M Chalmers
Original title: Kinder und Narren

Children and Fools is an extraordinary collection of thirty-four short prose pieces by a Jewish Austrian poet who was exiled from Vienna as a teenager. Fried settled in England and some of the best pieces in the book are sad/amusing vignettes of Austrian exile life set in North London. (more...)

The Orphanage [Buy Direct]

by Hubert Fichte
Translated by M Chalmers
Original title: Das Waisenhaus

Detlev is eight. Uprooted from the home of his Protestant grandparents in Hamburg, he has been surreptitiously deposited by his mother in a Catholic orphanage in Bavaria. As he waits for his mother to deliver him, he gets bird droppings on his hands. This provokes, at least in his mind, (more...)

Detlev’s Imitations [Buy Direct]

by Hubert Fichte
Translated by M Chalmers
Original title: Detlevs Imitationen

In narrated time, one night divides Detlev’s Imitations from The Orphanage. For Fichte, the two works were separated by the popular success of his ‘beat’ novel Die Palette, (more...)

The Passport

by Herta Müller
Translated by M Chalmers
Original title: Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt

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