Edwin Muir

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to from St Andrews to Edinburgh after Edwin obtained a job with the British Council , organizing activities and lectures for foreign allies housed in the city.

After the war Willa and Edwin Muir moved back to Prague (where they had lived briefly in 1921-2) when Edwin was appointed Director of the city's British Institute (funded by the British Council ).

Willa and Edwin Muir left Prague after about three years, shortly before the Communist Party , which had overthrown the elected government, closed Czechoslovakia's borders to foreigners or foreign travel.

After a year in Italy, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to Scotland, this time to Dalkeith, near Edinburgh where Edwin became warden of Newbattle Abbey College .

After their year in the United States, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to England and settled at Priory Cottage, Swaffham Prior, near Cambridge.

Though this is technically autobiography, she perhaps tells more about her husband than herself; Aileen Christianson , in her entry on WM in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, calls it more rightly a...

Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press with a foreword by Michael Schmidt . It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...

Willa and Edwin Muir embarked on their first translation project when they rendered three German plays into English blank verse for the multi-volume Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, edited by Ludwig Lewisohn .

In early March 1965, six years after Edwin 's death and at about the same time that she completed his Living with Ballads, WM published her edition of his Collected Poems. While she...

Martin Secker published a translation, listed as by both Willa and Edwin Muir , of Lion Feuchtwanger 's novel Jew Süss.

Willa and Edwin Muir spent almost this entire year translating Hermann Broch 's The Sleepwalkers: A Trilogy.

WM and Edwin Muir published the first English translation of Franz Kafka 's unfinished novel The Castle (Die Schloss), six years after Kafka's death.

WM and her husband published their third Kafka translation: the unfinished novel The Trial (originally Der Prozess). Kafka had stopped work on it in 1916, but its first publication in German was not until...

Willa and Edwin Muir published their translation of Kafka 's third unfinished novel, America.

A translation by both WM and Edwin Muir of Kafka 's ground-breaking, modernist short story The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.