Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz (Larache, Spanish Morocco, 1932) is a Spanish translator.
Miguel Sáenz | |
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 Sáenz in 2016 | |
| Born | Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz August 7, 1932 |
| Alma mater | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Occupation(s) | Linguist and translator |
| Organization | |
| Seat b of the Real Academia Española | |
| Assumed office 23 June 2013[a] | |
| Preceded by | Eliseo Álvarez-Arenas Pacheco |
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]