Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel

Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel (born 1959 in Berlin) is a German literary translator. From 1987 onward, he translated fiction, plays and poetry from French, Norwegian, Italian and Danish into German. The authors he translated include Henrik Ibsen, Jon Fosse, Kjell Askildsen, Tarjei Vesaas, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Édouard Louis and Jean Echenoz. His 2003 retrans­lation of Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night received particular critical attention. Schmidt-Henkel has received, among other honors, the Jane Scatcherd Prize, the Paul Celan Prize and, jointly with Frank Heibert, the Straelen Translator’s Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW.