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Miguel Sáenz

Miguel Sáenz
Sáenz in 2016
Born
Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz

(1932-08-07) August 7, 1932 (age 92)
Alma materUniversidad Complutense de Madrid
Occupation(s)Linguist and translator
Organization
Seat b of the Real Academia Española
Assumed office
23 June 2013[a]
Preceded byEliseo Álvarez-Arenas Pacheco [es]

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

Notes

  1. ^ Elected on 22 November 2012

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