Oskar Pastior
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Oskar Pastior (October 20, 1927 – October 4, 2006) was Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo.
Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu, he was deported to the Gulag by Soviet authorities (in 1945), and returned to Romania in 1949, training in German studies at the University of Bucharest.
Having obtained a scholarship to Vienna in 1968, Pastior chose to defect from Communist Romania, and left for Germany, living at first in Munich, then in West Berlin (where he lived the rest of his life). He was known for his translations of Romanian literature into German (among others, the works of Tudor Arghezi, George Coşbuc, Tristan Tzara, Gellu Naum, Marin Sorescu, and Urmuz).
He received the highly prestigious Georg-Büchner-Preis in 2006.
[edit] Selected works
- Many Glove Compartments: selected poems (2001, Burning Deck Press). Translated by Harry Mathews, Christopher Middleton, Rosmarie Waldrop, and John Yau.
[edit] External links
- The spell of a tender eel, on 2006 prizewinner Oskar Pastior
