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Grete Osterwald
Author · 20 books
Born in 1947, Grete Osterwald has worked as a literary translator from English and French. The authors she has translated include Georges Duby, Jacques Chessex, Hédi Kaddour, J. G. Farrell, Siri Hustvedt and Nicole Krauss. Osterwald has received several awards and grants for her translations; in 2017 she was awarded the Jane Scatcherd Prize for her translation of Hédi Kaddour’s novel The Prevailing Ones (»Die Großmächtigen«).