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Eva Rechel-Mertens
Author · 11 books
Eva Rechel-Mertens (1895–1981) was a German translator from French. She studied Romance philology and became best known for her translation of Marcel Proust’s novel cycle In Search of Lost Time. Published by Suhrkamp Verlag from 1953, the translation was completed in 1957. In 1966, she received the Johann-Heinrich-Voß Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Literature for this work.