Margot Bettauer Dembo

Author of The Seventh Cross

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The Seventh Cross (1942) — Translator, some editions — 935 copies, 19 reviews

Transit (1944) — Translator, some editions — 789 copies, 23 reviews

Grand Hotel (1929) — Translator, some editions — 745 copies, 14 reviews

Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich (2002) — Translator, some editions — 630 copies, 10 reviews

Summerhouse, Later: Stories (2001) — Translator, some editions — 444 copies, 13 reviews

Nothing But Ghosts (2003) — Translator, some editions — 212 copies, 2 reviews

Alice (2009) — Translator, some editions — 132 copies, 5 reviews

Where Love Begins (2014) — Translator, some editions — 61 copies, 5 reviews

Portrait of a Girl (2010) — Translator, some editions — 47 copies, 3 reviews

Letti Park (2016) — Translator, some editions — 46 copies, 3 reviews

Summer Storm (2004) — Translator, some editions — 36 copies, 1 review

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Other names: Dembo, Margot
Gender: female
Occupations: translator
Short biography: Margot Bettauer Dembo is a professional translator. Among the authors she has translated are Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, Joachim Fest, Ödön von Horvath, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Hermann Kant. She was awarded the Goethe-Institut/Berlin Translator's Prize in 1994 and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2003. Dembo also worked as a translator for two feature documentary films, The Restless Conscience, nominated for an Academy Award, and The Burning Wall.