Irène Heidelberger-Leonard

Irène Heidelberger-Leonard is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She was Professor of German Literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) for nearly 30 years before she moved to London in 2009. She is married to Dick Leonard, the British writer and journalist, and is the mother of Mark Leonard (writer), an expert on foreign policy, and Miriam Leonard, a classical scholar. She is currently working on Imre Kertész, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.
A Member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (Darmstadt), she has written extensively on post-war German literature, including on such authors as Alfred Andersch, Ingeborg Bachmann, Jurek Becker, Thomas Bernhard, Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, W. G. Sebald, and Peter Weiss.
Heidelberger-Leonard is the general editor of the 9-volume edition of the collected works of Jean Améry (Klett Cotta, Stuttgart, 2002-2008). Her biography of Jean Améry, Revolte...