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Edwin Muir was born on the 15th of May 1887 at the farm of Folly in Deerness, a parish in Orkney, Scotland. His family later moved to the island of Wyre and then back to the Mainland of Orkney before relocating to Glasgow in 1901.
Edwin Muir, working jointly with his wife Willa, translated major works by Franz Kafka, Lion Feuchtwanger, Hermann Broch, Gerhart Hauptmann, Sholem Asch, and Heinrich Mann. Their translations of Kafka's The Castle, The Trial, and Metamorphosis are among the most enduring, and many of their translations of German novels remain in print.
In 1958, Edwin and Willa Muir were granted the first Johann-Heinrich-Voss Translation Award for their body of translation work from German.
Scott and Scotland, published in 1936, argues that Scotland can only create a national literature by writing in English. The book was controversial and placed Muir in direct opposition to Hugh MacDiarmid and the Lallans movement.
From 1950, Edwin Muir served as Warden of Newbattle Abbey College in Midlothian, a college for working-class men. It was there that he met fellow Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown.
Edwin Muir was made Norton Professor of English at Harvard University in 1955. He returned to Britain in 1956 and died in Cambridge on the 3rd of January 1959.