| Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Excellent | ||||||
| Birth Name: | Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz | ||||||
| Birth Date: | 7 August 1932 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Larache, Spanish Morocco | ||||||
| Alma Mater: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | ||||||
| Occupation: | Linguist and translator | ||||||
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Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz (Larache, Spanish Morocco, 1932) is a Spanish translator.
Born in colonial Morocco, he was son of a military officer. He studied German philology at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He specialized in translating German authors into Spanish: Bertolt Brecht, Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard (of whom he also wrote a biography). He has also translated from English: William Faulkner, Henry Roth, Salman Rushdie.
Since 1999 he is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. In 2002 he was the first Spanish translator to receive an honoris causa diploma from the University of Salamanca.[1] Sáenz was elected to seat b of the Real Academia Española on 22 November 2012, he took up his seat on 23 June 2013.[2]