Peter Wortsman

Peter Wortsman is the author of works of fiction and nonfiction, including the travel memoir Ghost Dance in Berlin, which was awarded an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) in 2014. In 2013, he selected, edited, and translated stories for his Penguin Classics collection Tales of the German Imagination, from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann. His translations from German include works by Heinrich Heine, Robert Musil, Adelbert von Chamisso, Heinrich von Kleist, the Brothers Grimm, and Franz Kafka.

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