Michael Killisch-Horn

Michael von Killisch-Horn was born in Bremen in 1954. He studied Romance languages and literature, German studies, and German as a foreign language in Munich, and worked as a freelance translator. He translated works from French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Yiddish into German. In 1992, he received the Bavarian Arts Advancement Award for his translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s poetry. Following a three-month fellowship in Montreal in 2013, he devoted increased attention to the literature of Quebec. In 2020, he edited an issue of the literary journal die horen featuring contemporary Quebec literature; in 2021, he co-edited a focus on poetry from Quebec’s Outaouais region with Reinhard Lechner and Guy Jean.