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Robert Reuven Stiller (25 January 1928 – 10 December 2016) was a Polish polyglot, writer, poet, translator, and editor.
Robert Stiller was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and spent his early childhood in what is now Belarus. His father was of Jewish-Austrian descent.
At Warsaw University, Stiller studied Polish, other Slavic, and Indian languages and literatures; and at the University of Iceland, in Reykjavík, Old Norse. His scholarly activities also spanned English, German, Russian, Polynesian, Jewish, and Scandinavian literatures.
As a literary critic, he specialized in the arts of translation and editing. He served as an editor at several journals and publishing houses.
Most of Stiller's publications, including some 300 books, are translations of prose and poetry from thirty-odd languages, chiefly English, German, Russian, and Malay, as well as from French, Spanish, Middle High German, Old English, Old Norse, Icelandic, Swedish, Dutch, Yiddish, Hebrew, Latin, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Lusatian, Sanskrit, Chinese, and others. His translations were often accompanied by extensive critical essays and commentaries.
Stiller did literary research (six years, altogether) in England, Iceland, Denmark, Germany, France, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Central Asia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam.
In addition to his translations, he was a poet, playwright, and the author of books and essays about language.
Of Stiller's literary oeuvre, particularly notable is his version of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, in which he succeeded in conveying at once both the sense and the sound of the original, despite all its formal literary complexities.
Robert Stiller
Robert Reuven Stiller (25 January 1928 – 10 December 2016) was a Polish polyglot, writer, poet, translator, and editor.
Robert Stiller was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and spent his early childhood in what is now Belarus. His father was of Jewish-Austrian descent.
At Warsaw University, Stiller studied Polish, other Slavic, and Indian languages and literatures; and at the University of Iceland, in Reykjavík, Old Norse. His scholarly activities also spanned English, German, Russian, Polynesian, Jewish, and Scandinavian literatures.
As a literary critic, he specialized in the arts of translation and editing. He served as an editor at several journals and publishing houses.
Most of Stiller's publications, including some 300 books, are translations of prose and poetry from thirty-odd languages, chiefly English, German, Russian, and Malay, as well as from French, Spanish, Middle High German, Old English, Old Norse, Icelandic, Swedish, Dutch, Yiddish, Hebrew, Latin, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Lusatian, Sanskrit, Chinese, and others. His translations were often accompanied by extensive critical essays and commentaries.
Stiller did literary research (six years, altogether) in England, Iceland, Denmark, Germany, France, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Central Asia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam.
In addition to his translations, he was a poet, playwright, and the author of books and essays about language.
Of Stiller's literary oeuvre, particularly notable is his version of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, in which he succeeded in conveying at once both the sense and the sound of the original, despite all its formal literary complexities.