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CLAUDIO MAGRIS
Claudio Magris, scholar and critic, was born in Trieste, Italy, on 10 April 1939. After graduating from the University of Turin, he lectured there in German Language and Literature from 1970 to 1978. He holds a chair in Germanic Studies in the University of Trieste, and was for a period a member of the Italian parliament. He is the author of works of literary criticism and plays and has translated works by Ibsen, Heinrich von Kleist, and Arthur Schnitzler.
In 1998 Magris won the Strega Prize for his remarkable study of middle Europe, Danube. He was also awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2001 and a Prince of Asturias Awards for Literature in 2004. In 2006, Magris was awarded Austria’s annual State Prize for European literature. He lives in Italy.
OTHER WORKS BY CLAUDIO MAGRIS
Danube Microcosms
Inferences from a Sabre Blindly
CLAUDIO MAGRIS
A Different Sea
T RA n SLATED F ROM T HE I TALIA n B Y
M. S. Spurr
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First published in Italy with the title Un altro mare by Garzanti Editore, Milan in 1991
First published in Great Britain by Harvill, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers in 1993
This edition first published by The Harvill Press in 1995
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ISBN 9781860460524
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