About the Author

For many years an academic with a special interest in Austrian
literature and culture, Mike Mitchell has been a freelance literary
translator since 1995. He is one of Dedalus's editorial directors and
is responsible for the Dedalus translation programme. He has published
over fifty translations from German and French, including Gustav
Meyrink's five novels and The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy. His
translation of Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China won the 1998
Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize and he had been shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize on two occasions.