Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) was a German poet, writer, and translator born in Munich. He worked as a journalist in Berlin, and spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Most famous for his humorous and dreamlike poetry, he was also a translator of the works of Ibsen and Strindberg.
Max Knight (1909–1993) was a Jewish writer, editor, and translator. Born in Pilsen, then part of Austria, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and fled when the Nazis came to power. In 1941, he immigrated to the United States, where he was the editor of University of California Press. He received the Golden Cross of Honor from Austria.
Samuel Titan is an editor and literary translator based in Brazil. He has translated a number of French, German, and Argentinian authors into Portuguese, and has edited collections of essays by Erich Auerbach and Claude Lévi-Strauss. For NYRB Classics, he edited Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller Essays. He teaches comparative literature at the University of São Paulo.
