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Ilma Rakusa (born 2 January 1946) is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.

Ilma Rakusa
Ilma Rakusa in 2019
Born (1946-01-02) 2 January 1946 (age 76)
Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia
Occupation
  • Writer
  • translator
  • professor
NationalitySwiss
GenreProse, poetry
Years active1971–present
Notable worksMehr Meer (2009)
Notable awards
  • Petrarca-Übersetzerpreis (1991)
  • Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (2003)
  • Swiss Book Prize (2009)
  • Kleist Prize (2019)
Website
www.ilmarakusa.info

Biography


Ilma Rakusa was born in 1946 in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia to a Slovenian father and a Hungarian mother. She spent her early childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana and Trieste. In 1951, her family moved to Zürich, Switzerland.[1] Ilma Rakusa attended the Volksschule and the Gymnasium in Zürich. After the Matura, she studied Slavic and Romance Languages and Literature in Zürich, Paris and Leningrad between 1965 and 1971.[2]

In 1971, she was awarded a doctorate for her thesis titled Studien zum Motiv der Einsamkeit in der russischen Literatur, about themes of loneliness in Russian literature. From 1971 to 1977, she was a Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Slavic Seminar at the University of Zurich (UZH). From 1977 to 2006, she worked at UZH as a Lehrbeauftragter [de].[2][3]

In 1977, Rakusa authored her first book, a collection of poems titled Wie Winter. She has since published numerous collections of poems, collected short stories and essays. Rakusa works as a translator from French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.[1] She has translated works by authors including the French novelist Marguerite Duras, the Russian writer Aleksey Remizov, the Hungarian author Imre Kertész, the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva and the Serbo-Croatian Danilo Kiš.[4] Rakusa also works as a journalist (Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Die Zeit).[1] Rakusa's novel Mehr Meer (2009) has been translated into many languages and received the Swiss Book Prize in 2009.[4]

Rakusa has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since 1996[1] and the jury of the Zuger Übersetzer-Stipendium [de].[2] In 2010/2011, she was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.[1]

Today, Ilma Rakusa lives as a freelance writer in Zürich.[2]


Awards and honors


Ilma Rakusa at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2009.
Ilma Rakusa at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2009.

Bibliography



As editor



Translations into German



References


  1. "Ilma Rakusa". www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de (in German). 18 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. "Ilma Rakusa". www.heidelberg.de. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  3. "Ilma Rakusa" (PDF). www.ilmarakusa.info (in German).
  4. Breidecker, Volker (30 December 2015). "Die Fahrende. Ilma Rakusa, die große Europäerin der Literatur, wird 70". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). No. 300. p. 14.
  5. "Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding". City of Leipzig. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  6. "Ilma Rakusa erhält Manès-Sperber-Preis". Der Standard (in Austrian German). 12 November 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  7. "Kleist-Preis für Schweizer Schriftstellerin Ilma Rakusa". Die Welt (in German). 9 May 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  8. "Zuglärm und Orgelklang". Rheinischer Merkur (in German). No. 49. 3 December 2009. p. 2. Retrieved 6 October 2020.

На других языках


[de] Ilma Rakusa

Ilma Rakusa (* 2. Januar 1946 in Rimavská Sobota, Tschechoslowakei) ist eine Schweizer Literaturwissenschaftlerin, Schriftstellerin und Literaturübersetzerin.
- [en] Ilma Rakusa

[fr] Ilma Rakusa

Ilma Rakusa, née le 2 janvier 1946 à Rimavská Sobota en Slovaquie, est une écrivaine, dramaturge et traductrice suisse de langue allemande. Elle est récipiendaire du Prix Kleist en 2019.

[ru] Ракуза, Ильма

Ильма Ракуза (нем. Ilma Rakusa; род. 2 января 1946[1][2][3], Римавска-Собота, Банска-Бистрицкий край) — швейцарская писательница, переводчик, литературный критик.



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