Austrian writer and translatorFor other people named Peter Waterhouse, see Peter Waterhouse (disambiguation). Peter Waterhouse in 2011

Peter Waterhouse (March 24, 1956) is an Austrian writer and translator.

Born to of a British father and an Austrian mother, he studied German and English literature at the University of Vienna, and later in Los Angeles, where he completed a PhD on Paul Celan. He has won a number of important literary prizes, including the m*kripte prize (1990), the Heimito von Doderer Prize (1997), the Austrian State Prize for Translation (2002), the H.C. Artmann Prize (2004), and the Erich Fried Prize (2007).

He translates poetry into German from both English and Italian.

External links

• Author Page
• Waterhouse reading a poem