Elisabeth Edl

Elisabeth Edl (born 1956 in Austria) studied German and Romance languages and literature in Graz. From 1983 to 1995, she taught German language and literature at the University of Poitiers and at the École Supérieure de Commerce. As a literary scholar and translator, she focused particularly on French literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; her translations and editions include works by Stendhal, Flaubert, Julien Green, and Patrick Modiano. Her work received, among other honors, the Paul Celan Prize, the Petrarca Prize, the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize, the Austrian State Prize, the Romain Rolland Prize, and the Prix lémanique de la traduction.