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Michael Meyer

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
June 10 1921
Died
0202 08 20002000
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Michael Leverson Meyer was an English translator, biographer, journalist and dramatist.

Meyer was born in London into a timber merchant family of Jewish origin, and studied English at Christ Church College, Oxford. His first translation of a Swedish book was the novel The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson, published by Collins in 1954. He is best known for his translations of the works of two Scandinavian playwrights, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. Braham Murray wrote of Meyer in his obituary published by The Guardian that Meyer was "the greatest translator of Ibsen and Strindberg into English there has ever been" even superior to William Archer, but Inga-Stina Ewbank and especially Jan Myrdal has criticizes the mistranslations, where Myrdal tries to prove that they are made deliberately. Myrdal also strongly criticizes Meyer's biography of Strindberg.

Meyer's journalism appeared in the New York Review of Books. He also wrote acclaimed biographies of both these playwrights; the three volume work on Ibsen won the 1971 Whitbread Award for Biography and the work on Strindberg appeared in 1985. His autobiography Not Prince Hamlet was published in 1989.

Michael Meyer

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
June 10 1921
Died
0202 08 20002000
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Michael Leverson Meyer was an English translator, biographer, journalist and dramatist.

Meyer was born in London into a timber merchant family of Jewish origin, and studied English at Christ Church College, Oxford. His first translation of a Swedish book was the novel The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson, published by Collins in 1954. He is best known for his translations of the works of two Scandinavian playwrights, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. Braham Murray wrote of Meyer in his obituary published by The Guardian that Meyer was "the greatest translator of Ibsen and Strindberg into English there has ever been" even superior to William Archer, but Inga-Stina Ewbank and especially Jan Myrdal has criticizes the mistranslations, where Myrdal tries to prove that they are made deliberately. Myrdal also strongly criticizes Meyer's biography of Strindberg.

Meyer's journalism appeared in the New York Review of Books. He also wrote acclaimed biographies of both these playwrights; the three volume work on Ibsen won the 1971 Whitbread Award for Biography and the work on Strindberg appeared in 1985. His autobiography Not Prince Hamlet was published in 1989.

Books from Michael Meyer

A Doll's House

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Long Ships

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Strindberg: A Biography

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Lunatic and Lover/a Meeting in Rome/the Summer in Gossensass: Three Plays About Ibsen and Strindberg

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The End of the Corridor

4/5 ( ratings)

Three Danish Comedies

4/5 ( ratings)

Plays 1: Ghosts / The Wild Duck / The Master Builder

4/5 ( ratings)

The Long Ships

4/5 ( ratings)

Peer Gynt (A Doubleday Anchor Original)

4/5 ( ratings)

Words Through a Windowpane: A Life in London's Literary and Theatrical Scenes

4/5 ( ratings)

Ibsen

4/5 ( ratings)

Ibsen

4/5 ( ratings)

A Doll's House

4/5 ( ratings)

Plays 2: A Doll's House / An Enemy of the People / Hedda Gabler

4/5 ( ratings)
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