Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel

Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel (born 1959 in Berlin) is a German translator. Since the late 1980s, he translated fiction, plays and poetry from Norwegian, French and Italian into German. The authors he translated include Jon Fosse, Henrik Ibsen, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Echenoz, Édouard Louis, Tomas Espedal and Tarjei Vesaas. His work received the Jane Scatcherd Prize, the Paul Celan Prize and the Straelen Translator’s Prize. He was also named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France and received the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.