Curt Meyer-Clason (19 September 1910 – 13 January 2012) was a German writer and translator.[1]
Meyer-Clason was born inLudwigsburg in September 1910. After graduating from high school, Meyer-Clason worked as a commercial clerk inBremen and from 1936 as an independent businessman inArgentina andBrazil. From 1942 to 1944, he was interned in Brazil as an illegal alien. In 1955 he went back to Germany and worked as a freelance book editor in Munich. From the sixties, his work concentrated on working on translations of Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American books – notably numerous books byGabriel García Márquez includingOne Hundred Years of Solitude. From 1969 to 1976 Meyer-Clason acted as head of theGoethe Institute in Lisbon.
Curt Meyer-Clason was a member of the Association of German Writers, thePEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a corresponding member of theAcademia Brasileira de Letras inRio de Janeiro. He received the following awards: 1975Translation Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature, 1978 Translation Prize of the Cultural Committee of theFederal Association of German Industry (BDI) and in 1996 theFederal Merit 1st Class.
As of 2008, Meyer-Clason was living in Munich and in 2011 heturned 100.[2] He died inMunich in January 2012 at the age of 101.
