Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was a German playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and painter. His works include the plays The New Trial , also published by Duke University Press, and Marat/Sade and the novels The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman and The Conversation of the Three Walkers . He received West Germany's most important literary award, the Georg B�chner Prize, posthumously in 1982. Joachim Neugroschel (1938-2011) was the translator of some two hundred books, including works by Franz Kafka,...See more
Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was a German playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and painter. His works include the plays The New Trial , also published by Duke University Press, and Marat/Sade and the novels The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman and The Conversation of the Three Walkers . He received West Germany's most important literary award, the Georg B�chner Prize, posthumously in 1982. Joachim Neugroschel (1938-2011) was the translator of some two hundred books, including works by Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann. He won three PEN translation awards and a French-American Foundation Translation Prize. See less
