{"id":8423,"date":"2018-09-12T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_author&#038;p=8423"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:03:42","slug":"peter-wortsman","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/artist\/peter-wortsman\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Wortsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Wortsman is an author, playwright and translator. He was born in New York in 1952. Dubbed a \u201c20<sup>th<\/sup>-century Brother Grimm\u201d (<em>Bloomsbury Review<\/em>) and \u201ca delinquent Hans Christian Andersen\u201d (by playwright Mark O\u2019Donnell), Peter Wortsman\u2019s publications include two books of short fiction, \u201cA Modern Way To Die\u201d (1991) and \u201cFootprints in Wet Cement\u201d (2017); a travel memoir, \u201cGhost Dance in Berlin, A Rhapsody in Gray\u201d (2013)\u2014recipient of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY); a novel, \u201cCold Earth Wanderers\u201d (2014); and two stage plays, \u201cThe Tattooed Man Tells All\u201d (2000) and \u201cBurning Words\u201d (2006).\u00a0<span id=\"more-126\"><\/span>He is also a translator from the German, including \u201cPosthumous Papers of a Living Author\u201d, by Robert Musil (now in its third edition, 1988, 1995 and 2009), \u201cTales of the German Imagination\u201d (2013), an anthology he also edited and annotated, and most recently, \u201cKondundrum, Selected Prose of Franz Kafka\u201d (2016). 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