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Willa Muir
1890–1970
A sharp, thoughtful Scottish writer and translator, she is remembered both for her own fiction and essays and for the English versions of major European writers she produced with Edwin Muir.
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Women: an inquiry
by Willa Muir
About the author
Born in Montrose, Scotland, in 1890, Willa Muir studied Classics at the University of St Andrews and went on to build a varied literary career as a novelist, essayist, and translator. Her work is often linked to the Scottish Renaissance, and she also wrote under the name Agnes Neill Scott.
She is especially well known for the translation partnership she formed with her husband, Edwin Muir. Together they brought important German-language authors, including Franz Kafka, to English-speaking readers, and later received the Johann-Heinrich-Voss Prize for translation.
Alongside that collaborative work, she wrote fiction and nonfiction of her own, including the novel Imagined Corners and the feminist study Women: An Inquiry. Her reputation has grown as more readers have recognized her as a major writer in her own right, not only as part of a famous literary partnership.