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Mike Mitchell
For many years an academic with a special interest in Austrian literature and culture, Mike Mitchell has been a freelance literary translator since 1995.
He is one of Dedalus's editorial directors and is responsible for the Dedalus translation programme.
He has published over fifty translations from German and French, including Gustav Meyrink’s five novels and The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy.
His translation of Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China won the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize after he had been shortlisted in previous years for his translations of Stephanie by Herbert Rosendorfer and The Golem by Gustav Meyrink.
His translations have been shortlisted three times for The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize:Simplicissimus by Johann Grimmelshausen in 1999, The Other Side by Alfred Kubin in 2000 and The Bells of Bruges by Georges Rodenbach in 2008.
His biography of Gustav Meyrink:Vivo:The Life of Gustav Meyrink was published by Dedalus in November 2008.
His website can be visited at homepages.phonecoop.coop/mjmitchell
Associated Publications
An Afternoon with Rock Hudson
Androids from Milk
Bruges-la-Morte
Grand Solo for Anton
Hidden Lives
Letters Back to Ancient China
Milagrosa
On the Run
Simplicissimus
Stephanie
Tearaway
The Angel of the West Window
The Architect of Ruins
The Bells of Bruges
The Class
The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000
The Dedalus Meyrink Reader
The German Refugees
The Golem
The Great Bagarozy
The Green Face
The Life of Courage: the notorious Thief, Whore and Vagabond
The Maimed
The Other Side
The Road to Darkness
The Staff Room
The White Dominican
Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink
Walpurgisnacht