Crossing the Sierra De Gredos

Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many works include The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, My Year in the No-Man’s-Bay, and On a Dark Night Left My Silent House. Krishna Winston, professor of German studies at Wesleyan University, has translated three other books by Peter Handke and works by Goethe, Christoph Hein, Gÿnter Grass, and others. She is the recipient of two Schlegel-Tieck Prizes for translation and a Helen and Kurt Wolff translator’s Prize.