Miguel Sáenz
Spanish translator (born 1932)
Incumbent
23 June 2013[a]
Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz (Larache, Spanish Morocco, 1932) is a Spanish translator.
Biography
Born in colonial Morocco, he was son of a military officer. He studied German philology at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He specialized in translating German authors into Spanish: Bertolt Brecht, Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard (of whom he also wrote a biography). He has also translated from English: William Faulkner, Henry Roth, Salman Rushdie.
Since 1999 he is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. In 2002 he was the first Spanish translator to receive an honoris causa diploma from the University of Salamanca.[1] Sáenz was elected to seat b of the Real Academia Española on 22 November 2012, he took up his seat on 23 June 2013.[2]
Awards
- In 1991 he was awarded the Premio Nacional a la Obra de un Traductor.
- On 18 February 2019 he received the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes.[3]
Notes
- ^ Elected on 22 November 2012
References
- ^ Astorga, A. (23 November 2012). "El traductor, jurista y general en la reserva Miguel Sáenz, nuevo académico de la RAE". ABC (in Spanish). Madrid: Vocento. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ "Miguel Sáenz". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ "Chiquito de la Calzada, entre los 24 artistas que reciben la Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes 2017". Antena 3 (in Spanish). Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
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- Joaquín Francisco Pacheco (1847)
- José Selgas (1874)
- Víctor Balaguer i Cirera (1883)
- Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1902)
- Vicente Enrique y Tarancón (1970)
- Eliseo Álvarez-Arenas Pacheco (1996)
- Miguel Sáenz (2013)
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