Education
Born in Texas, he was educated at Wesleyan University, Washington University in Saint Louis, and the State Academy of Theater in Warsaw, Poland.
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Philip Boehm
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Fluent in English, German and Polish, he has directed plays in Poland and Slovakia. His own written work includes several plays such as Mixtitlan, Soul of a Clone, Alma en venta, The Death of Atahualpa and Return of the Bedbug. Boehm has translated more than twenty literary works from German and Polish.
Achievements
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Boehm is the founder of the Upstream Theater in Saint Louis, which has become known for its productions of foreign plays. He has won numerous prizes for his translations, including the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, as well as various awards from the American Translators Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association America, the Austrian Ministry of Culture, and the Texas Institute of Letters.
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United States
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Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize; National Translation Award
Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language.Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language.