Ottilie Mulzet

{{short description|Literary translator}}

Ottilie Mulzet (born July, 1960 in Toronto){{cite web |title=Ottilie Muzlet |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/ottilie-muzlet |website=The Booker Prizes |access-date=7 November 2021}} is a literary translator of Hungarian poetry and prose whose work has been recognized with several major literary awards.

She is known in particular for her translations of several books by László Krasznahorkai. Her translation of Krasznahorkai's novel Seiobo There Below won the Best Translated Book Award in 2014.{{cite web |last1=Schaub |first1=Michael |title=Thirteen countries and nine languages are among the finalists for the Best Translated Book Awards |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-best-translated-book-awards-20170418-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=7 November 2021 |date=18 April 2017}} She was also awarded the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for her work on Krasznahorkai together with George Szirtes,{{cite web |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |title=Man Booker International prize 2015 won by 'visionary' László Krasznahorkai |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/19/man-international-booker-2015-laszlo-krasznahorkai |website=The Guardian |access-date=7 November 2021 |date=20 May 2015}} who translated Krasznahorkai's novel Satantango. Other Krasznahorkai titles Mulzet has translated include Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens and Animalinside. She has also translated books by Szilárd Borbély (including Berlin-Hamlet, which was shortlisted for both the National Translation Award and the Best Translated Book Award in 2017){{cite web|url=https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/national-translation-awards-in-poetry-and-prose-shortlists-announced|title=National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose Shortlists Announced|website=American Literary Translators Association|date=7 August 2017 |accessdate=1 November 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/news-and-events/the-2017-best-translated-book-award-shortlist|title=The 2017 Best Translated Book Award Shortlist|website=World Literature Today|date=18 April 2017 |accessdate=1 November 2018}} and Gábor Schein. Mulzet won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, by László Krasznahorkai.{{Cite web |url=https://apnews.com/3d23fca76c9b4ab6b0de5495a9e20fd7 |title=Susan Choi, Sarah M. Broom win National Book Awards |date=20 November 2019 |website=Associated Press |accessdate=22 November 2019}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/11/20/781353829/national-book-awards-handed-to-susan-choi-arthur-sze-and-more |title=National Book Awards Handed To Susan Choi, Arthur Sze And More |last=Dwyer |first=Colin |date=20 November 2019 |website=NPR |accessdate=22 November 2019}}

She lives in Prague.{{cite web |title=Ottilie Mulzet - National Book Foundation |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/people/ottilie-mulzet/#fullBio |website=National Book Foundation |access-date=7 November 2021}}