Carme Gala

(Barcelona, 1955)

Lived at different places around Germany and kept links with Lower Saxony. Translates all kinds of texts, mainly literary ones.

Among her 40+ published titles, one may mention:

  • Elias Canetti’s autobiographical trilogy (Proa, Barcelona 2001), for Part I of which, The Tongue set Free (La llengua salvada, she was awarded the 1987 SERRA D’OR prize.
  • Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Les afinitats electives, Proa, Barcelona 1997).
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Proa, Barcelona 1999).
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (La metamorfosi, Columna, Barcelona 2001).
  • The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (La muntanya màgica, Proa, Barcelona 2001).
  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (El lector, Columna, Barcelona 1998-2009).
  • The Double-Bass and four short stories by Patrick Süskind (El contrabaix, Columna, Barcelona 1986 i 1996).
  • No Place On Earth by Christa Wolf, about the poet Karoline von Günderrode (L’ombra d’un somni, Deriva, Sant Cugat del Vallès 1998).