George Steiner (1) (1929–2020)
Author of After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
For other authors named George Steiner, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, but also lived in Vienna and New York. Steiner was a critic, novelist, philosopher, translator, and educator. Currently, he is a professor at Cambridge University and the University of Geneva. He has written for the New Yorker for over thirty years and has show more published the books No Passion Spent, Errata: An Examined Life, and Martin Heidegger: With a New Introduction. George Steiner died in Cambridge, England on February 3, 2020, at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by George Steiner
Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought (1979) 205 copies
Elogio de la transmision/ Praise for the transmission (Biblioteca De Ensayo: Serie Menor) (Spanish Edition) (2003) 34 copies
Prefacio a la Biblia Hebrea (Biblioteca Ensayo) (Biblioteca De Ensayo: Serie Menor) (Spanish Edition) (2001) 17 copies
Universitas? 3 copies
What Is Comparative Literature?: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 11 October, 1994… (1995) 2 copies
Språkdyret 1 copy
The Genius of Small Things 1 copy
Inner lights 1 copy
Von realer Gegenwart 1 copy
Associated Works
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature (1950) — Introduction — 368 copies
The Queen of Spades; The Tales of Ivan Belkin; Dubrovsky; The Captain's Daughter (1961) — Foreword, some editions — 33 copies
Lezen, een kunst die uit de mode raakt — Author, some editions — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Steiner, George
- Legal name
- Steiner, George Francis
- Other names
- STEINER, George Francis
STEINER, George - Birthdate
- 1929-04-23
- Date of death
- 2020-02-03
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Neuilly sur Seine, France
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Geneva, Switzerland
Cambridge, England, UK - Education
- Lycée Français de New York
University of Chicago (BA|1948)
Harvard University (MA|1950)
University of Oxford (Balliol College)
Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, Paris, France - Occupations
- professor of English and Comparative Literature
literary critic
novelist
translator
essayist - Relationships
- Steiner, Zara Shakow (wife)
Steiner, Deborah Tarn (daughter) - Organizations
- University of Oxford
Harvard University
University of Geneva
University of Cambridge (Churchill College)
The Economist - Awards and honors
- Premio Príncipe de Asturias (Communications and Humanities, 2001)
Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (1984)
Fellow, British Academy (1998)
Zabel Award (1970)
Truman Capote Lifetime Award for Literature (1999)
King Albert Medal (show all 9)
Rhodes Scholar (1955)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1971)
Bell Prize (1950) - Short biography
- Son of Dr Frederick George and Mrs Else Steiner, George Steiner was raised trilingually, in German, English and French. His first formal education took place at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris and then at the Lycée Français de New York after the family moved to the United States in 1940. In his Memoirs, Steiner recalled being hit by a piece of chalk in the face by a teacher at the Lycée. His field is comparative literature. His work as a critic has tended toward exploring cultural and philosophical issues, particularly having to do with translation and the nature of language and of literature. Steiner's best-known book, After Babel (1975), was an early and influential contribution to the field of translation studies.
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