Peter Wortsman

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Dubbed a "20th-century Brother Grimm” (Bloomsbury Review) and "a delinquent Hans Christian Andersen” (by playwright Mark O=Donnell), Peter Wortsman is the author of a book of short fiction, A Modern Way To Die (Fromm, 1991), two stage plays, "The Tattooed Man Tells All” (2000) and “Burning Words,” (2004), and an artists’ book, “it-t=i,” (Here and Now Press, 2005) on which he collaborated with his brother, the artist Harold Wortsman. Also a critically acclaimed translator from the German, his translations include Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil, now in its third edition (Eridanos, 1988; Penguin 20th-Century Classics, 1995; Archipelago Books, 2006); Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg (Archipelago, 2005) and Travel Pictures, by Heinrich Heine (forthcoming from Archipelago Books). He is the recipient of the Beard’s Fund Short Story Award and fellowships from the Fulbright and Thomas J. Watson Foundations.

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Golden Pot
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Borrowed Words
Representative edition published 2022
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Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim
Representative edition published 2021
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Stimme und Atem/Out of Breath, Out of Mind (Zweisprachige Erzählungen/Two-Tongued Tales)
Representative edition published 2020
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Intimate Ties
Representative edition published 2019
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Caring Heirs of Dr. Samuel Bard
Representative edition published 2019
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Footprints in Wet Cement
Representative edition published 2017
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Selected Prose of Heinrich Von Kleist
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Creator
Representative edition published 2014
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Cold earth wanderers
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Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann
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Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm
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Sandman
Representative edition published 2013
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Ghost Dance in Berlin
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Telegrams Of The Soul
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A Modern Way to Die
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I Just Let Life Rain down on Me
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Tattooed Man Tells All / der Tätowierte Mann
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Odd Birds and Fat Cats (an Urban Bestiary) : (an Urban Bestiary)
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Driftwood at the River's Edge
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Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard
Representative edition published 2019
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Hinkemann
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Sandman
Representative edition published 2016
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