Philip Boehm is an American literary translator, playwright and theater director. He has won multiple awards like the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, and the Ungar German Translation Award for his work. He has translated more than thirty novels and plays by German and Polish writers. He has also written plays such as Mixtitlan, Soul of a Clone, Alma en venta and The Death of Atahualpa, among others.