Vincent Kling teaches at La Salle University and divides his time between Philadelphia and Vienna. He has published on opera, the detective story, the craft of translation, Isabel Allende, W. G. Sebald, and several Austrian authors—mainly Gerhard Fritsch, Ödön von Horváth, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gert Jonke, and Heimito von Doderer. He has translated works by Doderer, Jonke, Fritsch, and Hofmannsthal. He was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 2013 and is on the staff of the Salzburg Festival.