Collection: Ottilie Mulzet

Ottilie Mulzet is a translator of poetry and prose, as well as a literary critic. She was awarded the Tibor Déry Prize in 2020 and the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for her translation of László Krasznahorkai’s Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming. In addition to In a Bucolic Land, she has translated Borbély's novel The Dispossessed and his verse collections Berlin-Hamlet (NYRB Poets) and Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004–2010. She is based in Prague.

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