Alexander Nitzberg

Alexander Nitzberg, born in Moscow in 1969, is a German-Russian writer and translator. He emigrated to Germany in 1980 and studied German literature and philosophy in Düsseldorf. He became known especially for his translations of Russian literature, including works by Daniil Kharms, Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Alexander Pushkin, as well as for his own poetry. His new translation of Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” was nominated for the 2013 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. He received the Read Russia Prize in 2014 and the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation in 2019.