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Wolfgang Görtschacher |
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| Wolfgang Görtschacher was born in Linz, Austria, in 1960. He read
English and American Studies as well as German Language and Literature
at the University of Salzburg. He gained his PhD with a history of the
little magazines in Great Britain. At present he is an
Assistant
Professor at the University of Salzburg teaching literary criticism
and translation studies. He is the author of
Little Magazine Profiles:
The Little Magazines in Great Britain 1939-1993 (1993) and
Contemporary
Views on the Little Magazine Scene (2000). Recently he co-edited (with
Ludwig Laher)
So also ist das / So That's What It's Like: Eine zweisprachige
Anthologie britischer Gegenwartslyrik (Haymon, 2002) and (with Laima
Sruoginis) Raw Amber: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Poetry
(Poetry Salzburg, 2002). He has published numerous articles on contemporary
poetry, the little magazine and small press scene, and translation studies.
He is the owner-director of the press Poetry Salzburg (formerly University
of Salzburg Press), and edits the little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review
(formerly
The Poet's Voice), and works as literary critic, translator,
editor, and publisher. Current projects include a book on the impact of
(Non-Shakespearean) Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama on later dramatists. |
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