Margitt Lehbert Switzerland
Margitt Lehbert was born in 1957 in Geneva to German
parents. She runs a highly respected small press which she
founded in 2006, Edition Rugerup, now based in Berlin.
She is known as a versatile translator of poetry from
English into German as well as from German into English.
Her work includes translations of Les Murray, Carol Ann
Duffy, Georg Trakl and Sarah Kirsch.
(2016)