Miguel Sáenz

Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz (Larache, Spanish Morocco, 1932) is a Spanish translator.

Miguel Sáenz
Miguel Saenz in 2016
Born	Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz August 7, 1932 Larache, Spanish Morocco
Alma mater	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Occupation	Linguist and translator
Organization	Real Academia Española German Academy for Language and Literature

Biography

Born in colonial Morocco, he was son of a military officer. He studied German philology at the Complutense University of Madrid.

He specialized in translating German authors into Spanish: Bertolt Brecht, Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard (of whom he also wrote a biography). He has also translated from English: William Faulkner, Henry Roth, Salman Rushdie.

Since 1999 he is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. In 2002 he was the first Spanish translator to receive an honoris causa diploma from the University of Salamanca.[1] Sáenz was elected to Seat b of the Real Academia Española on 22 November 2012, he took up his seat on 23 June 2013.[2]

Awards

• In 1991 he was awarded the Premio Nacional a la Obra de un Traductor.

• On 18 February 2019 he received the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes.[3]

References

1. Astorga, A. (23 November 2012). "El traductor, jurista y general en la reserva Miguel Sáenz, nuevo académico de la RAE". ABC (in Spanish). Madrid: Vocento. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
2. "Miguel Sáenz". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2019.
3. "Chiquito de la Calzada, entre los 24 artistas que reciben la Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes 2017". Antena 3 (in Spanish). Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2019.