Maria Dessauer

Maria Dessauer (1920–2021) was a German writer, literary translator, and editor. From 1974 to 1983, she worked as an editor at Suhrkamp Verlag. The authors whose works she translated include Lewis Carroll, Marguerite Duras, and Gustave Flaubert. Dessauer was born in Frankfurt am Main and died there on January 21, 2021.