Curt Meyer-Clason (19 September 1910 – 13 January 2012) was a German writer and translator.
After graduating from high school, Meyer-Clason worked as a commercial clerk in Bremen and from 1936 as an independent businessman in Argentina and Brazil.
From the sixties, his work concentrated on working on translations of Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American books – notably numerous books by Gabriel García Márquez including One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Curt Meyer-Clason was a member of the Association of German Writers, the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a corresponding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro.
He received the following awards: 1975 Translation Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature, 1978 Translation Prize of the Cultural Committee of the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI) and in 1996 the Federal Merit 1st Class.