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Peter Filkins

Biography

Peter Filkins

Peter Filkins is an acclaimed translator and poet and the recipient of a Berlin Prize fellowship in 2005 from the American Academy in Berlin, among other honors. He teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and translation at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Peter Filkins

Books by Peter Filkins

written by H. G. Adler, translated by Peter Filkins - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

When Random House published the first English translation of H.G. Adler’s THE JOURNEY in 2008, literary critics and historians alike came to recognize Adler as a neglected modern master, comparing him to Joyce, Woolf, Kafka and Gertrude Stein. Told in a powerful stream-of-consciousness style, THE WALL is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the past amidst the chaotic and competitive world of postwar exiles living in London.