Collection: Shelley Frisch

Shelley Frisch's translations from German, which include biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Marlene Dietrich/Leni Riefenstahl (dual biography), and Franz Kafka, along with many other works of fiction and nonfiction, have been awarded numerous translation prizes. She has chaired the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize jury since 2015.

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