Geoffrey Skelton, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Geoffrey Skelton

British writer

Date of Birth: 11-May-1916

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: translator, biographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Geoffrey David Skelton (1916–1998) was a British author and translator.
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.