Karin Fleischanderl

Karin Fleischanderl (born 1960 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian translator and publicist. She studied translation at the Vienna Interpreters’ Institute and began working as a freelance translator in 1983. She translates from Italian and English, including works by Gabriele D’Annunzio, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Antonio Tabucchi, Giancarlo De Cataldo, and Paolo Rumiz. In 1995, she received the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation, followed by the Nossack Academy Award for Authors and Their Translators in 1998. Together with Gustav Ernst, she founded the Leondinger Academy for Literature in 2005 and the Johann Beer Literature Prize in 2009.