• Willa Muir (née Anderson; 13 March 1890 – 22 May 1970), also known as Agnes Neill Scott, was a Scottish novelist, essayist and translator. She was the...
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  • as from his Orkney 'Eden'." In 1919, Muir married Willa Anderson, and the couple moved to London. About this, Muir wrote simply 'My marriage was the most...
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  • dance and film Willa Muir (1890–1970), Scottish novelist, essayist and translator Willa O'Neill (born 1973), New Zealand actress Willa Beatrice Player...
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    States. 1941 translators: Willa and Edwin Muir. The edition includes an Homage by Thomas Mann. 1954 translators: Willa and Edwin Muir additional sections translated...
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    dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect". (Willa Muir, 1933) Another virtually insurmountable problem facing translators is...
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    their 1933 translation of the story — the first into English — Willa Muir and Edwin Muir rendered it as "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy...
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    English-language versions, including as Amerika, translated by Edwin and Willa Muir (1938); as The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), translated by Michael Hofmann...
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  • Willa Muir Florabel Muir (1889–1970), American journalist, writer, and newspaper columnist Francis Muir (born 1926), British geophysicist Frank Muir (1920–1998)...
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    "Chapter 47: Beasts of Prey". Paris Gazette (in German). Translated by Muir, Willa; Muir, Edwin. New York: Viking Press. pp. 665–66. ISBN 1-135-37010-9. His...
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    at the end of World War I. An English translation in 1932 by Edwin and Willa Muir received good reviews and the work has been admired since World War II...
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  • memoirist, activist) Edwin Morgan (poet, not to be confused with Edwin Muir) Willa Muir (novelist, translator) R. Crombie Saunders (poet, editor, journalist...
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    including James Joyce, Thornton Wilder, and his translators Edwin and Willa Muir – managed to help him emigrate; first to Britain and then to the United...
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    Judgment" for the modernist journal transition in 1928. In 1930, Edwin and Willa Muir translated the first German edition of Das Schloss. This was published...
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    added that the English translation of the short story created by Willa Muir and Edwin Muir contains inaccuracies, including those that support the religious...
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    Folklore Ralph Whitlock, Phaidon, 1979, p. 160 "Living With Ballads" Willa Muir, Oxford University Press, 1965 "The Critic, Volume 21" Carolyn Shipman...
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  • antiquary Edwin Muir (1887–1959), novelist and poet Willa Muir (awa Agnes Neill Scott, 1890–1970), novelist and translator William Muir (1819–1905), orientalist...
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    to Montrose in 1929, as did his friend the painter Edward Baird. Willa and Edwin Muir lived at her mother's house in Montrose at various times during the...
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    Steiner, George (1992). "Introduction" to Franz Kafka's THE TRIAL. Willa Muir, Edwin Muir. New York. ISBN 0-679-40994-7. OCLC 26232703.{{cite book}}: CS1...
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    authors associated with the movement, who included Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir, Nan Shepherd and Naomi Mitchison. Many major Scottish post-war novelists...
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  • Some of Samson's authors were personal friends, like Edwin and Willa Muir. Edwin Muir expressed his gratitude for a "beautiful volume" of his work (Six...
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  • by Kafka between 1917 and 1924. The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in 1933. The same translation was...
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    Marbach am Neckar, Germany. The first English-language translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was published in 1937. In 1999, the book was listed in Le Monde's...
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  • various states of incompletion. Most of the stories are translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, with occasional translations by Tania and James Stern. Several fables...
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  • Mühringer (1920–2009, Austria/Austria-Hungary), poet & fiction & ch. wr. Willa Muir (1890–1970, Scotland), wr. Hercilia Fernández de Mujía (1860–1929, Bolivia)...
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    writing. She published a full-length critical study of the writings of Willa Muir. Aileen was recognised for her outstanding contribution to Scottish Literature...
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  • Star John Moore (1829–1902) Zeluco Ewan Morrison (born 1968), Distance Willa Muir (1890–1970) Helen and Morna Mulgray (born 1939) Neil Munro (1863–1930)...
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    authors associated with the movement, who included Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir, Nan Shepherd and Naomi Mitchison. Many major Scottish post-war novelists...
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  • der Chinesischen Mauer (1931). The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in...
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  • Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Literatur und Politik [de]. 1958: Edwin Muir and Willa Muir 1959: Benno Geiger 1960: E. K. Rahsin (Elisabeth „Less“ Kaerrick)...
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    the writers John Angus (1906–1968), Fionn MacColla and Willa Muir (1890–1970) (wife of Edwin Muir); Sir James Davidson Stuart Cameron FRSE (1900-1969),...
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