Esther Kinsky

Esther Kinsky (born 1956 in Engelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German literary translator and the author of novels and poetry.

She works as a literary translator from the Polish, English and Russian languages into German and as the author of prose and poetry.

[2][3] Kinsky has received many awards both for her literary work and her translations, including in 2015 the Kranichsteiner Literature Prize and, for Am Fluss, the Preis der SWR-Bestenliste of Baden-Baden.

During the 2017/2018 fall/winter semester she was the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professor of the Poetics of Translation at the Free University of Berlin.

[5] In 2018 her novel, Hain: Geländeroman was published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, and won the Belletristik (Belles Lettres) category of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, 2018.