Geoffrey Skelton
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Geoffrey David Skelton (1916–1998) was a British author and translator.[1] He specialized in German music, writing biographies of Richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, Wieland Wagner and Paul Hindemith. He also translated numerous plays by leading German-language writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch and Peter Weiss.
He won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice, the first one for his translation of Robert Lucas' biography of Frieda Lawrence and the second one for Siegfried Lenz's novel The Training Ground.
- Frieda Lawrence by Robert Lucas
- Cosima Wagner's Diaries: A New Selection by Cosima Wagner
- Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
- Sketchbook 1966–1971 by Max Frisch
- Selected Letters of Paul Hindemith by Paul Hindemith
- Bluebeard: A Tale by Max Frisch
- The Training Ground by Siegfried Lenz
- As You Were: A Farce by Johann Nestroy
- Arden Must Die, opera libretto by Erich Fried
