Ottilie Mulzet (born July, 1960 in Toronto)[1] is a literary translator of Hungarian poetry and prose whose work has been recognized with several major literary awards.
[2] She was also awarded the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for her work on Krasznahorkai together with George Szirtes,[3] who translated Krasznahorkai's novel Satantango.
Other Krasznahorkai titles Mulzet has translated include Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens and Animalinside.
She has also translated books by Szilárd Borbély (including Berlin-Hamlet, which was shortlisted for both the National Translation Award and the Best Translated Book Award in 2017)[4][5] and Gábor Schein.
Mulzet won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, by László Krasznahorkai.