Excellence in Translation

Robert Savage is a translator who teaches at Ivanhoe Grammar School in Melbourne. His translation of Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger’s monumental biography of eighteenth-century Habsburg empress, Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time, was released in 2022 and hailed in the Literary Review as “elegant” and “of page-turning readability”. Chair of the judging panel, Professor Brian […]

Robert Savage Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rillinger. Translated from German by Robert Savage. Princeton University Press, 2022. Robert Savage is a translator and high school teacher living in Melbourne. His translation of Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger’s monumental biography of eighteenth-century Habsburg empress, Maria Theresa, appeared in early 2022. When originally published in