{{Short description|Swiss translator}} {{Infobox person | name = Susanna Roth | birth_date = 1950 | birth_place = Winterthur, Zürich | death_date = 11 July 1997 | death_place = Zürich, Switzerland | citizenship = Swiss | occupation = Translator }}
'''Susanna Roth''' (1950–1997) was a Swiss bohemist and literary translator.
== Career == Susanna Roth studied Romance and Slavic philology in Zürich, Paris and Prague. From 1977 to 1982 she worked at the Slavic studies of the University of Zurich.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roth |first=Susanna |title=Laute Einsamkeit und bitteres Glück : zur poetischen Welt von Bohumil Hrabals Prosa |date=1986 |publisher=Lang |isbn=3-261-03651-6 |location=Bern|oclc=16395017 }}</ref> In 1985, she received her doctorate from the same university based on a dissertation on the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. She worked as a translator and headed the Zürich East/West office of the Pro Helvetia Foundation.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Demetz |first=Peter |title=Susanna Roth. Ein Nachruf von Peter Demetz |journal=Transcript |issue=14 |pages=205–208}}</ref> Roth translated more than thirty books by Czech authors into German, including Milan Kundera, Bohumil Hrabal, Věra Linhartová, Daniela Hodrová and Božena Němcová.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1997-07-18 |title=Susanna Roth |url=https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2F1997%2F30%2FSusanna_Roth |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=Die Zeit}}</ref>
Roth was the recipient of two Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Susanna Roth |url=https://www.iwm.at/fellow/susanna-roth-0 |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=IWM |date=30 June 1989 |language=en}}</ref> In 1993, she was awarded the Premia Bohemica award for her contribution to popularising Czech literature abroad.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-03-27 |title=Obec spisovatelu |url=http://www.obecspisovatelu.cz/dokoran/dokoran_38/dokoran_19.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070327121430/http://www.obecspisovatelu.cz/dokoran/dokoran_38/dokoran_19.htm |archive-date=2007-03-27 |access-date=2023-02-12 |website= |language=cs}}</ref> Two years later, she received the Jaeggi-Übersetzer-Preis.<ref name=":1" />
== Legacy == The Susanna Roth Award, named after her, has been awarded to young translators from Czech since 2014 by the Literary Section of the Arts and Theatre Institute and the Czech Centres.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Susanna Roth Award |url=https://www.czechcentres.cz/en/projects/cena-susanny-roth |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=Czech Centres |language=en}}</ref> Its 2023 edition was held in 17 countries.<ref name=":0" />
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