Michael Kellner

Michael Kellner (born 1953) is a German translator, bookseller, publisher, curator, and photographer. He translated works by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Armistead Maupin, and Atticus Lish into German. His work includes a new translation of Burroughs’s novel Naked Lunch and a translation of the correspondence between Kerouac and Ginsberg, Ruhm tötet alles. He received the Hamburg Förderpreis für literarische Übersetzungen for the latter. In 2009, he was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Translation Prize for his new translation of Naked Lunch.