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John Brownjohn | |
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Born | John Maxwell Brownjohn 11 April 1929 Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England |
Died | 6 January 2020 | (aged 90)
Occupation | Literary translator |
John Maxwell Brownjohn (11 April 1929[1][2] – 6 January 2020) was a British literary translator.[3]
Career
John Brownjohn translated more than 160 books, and won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation three times and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize once.
Film
Brownjohn also collaborated with the filmmaker Roman Polanski on Tess (1979), Pirates (1986), Bitter Moon (1992), The Ninth Gate (1999) and The Pianist (2002).
Personal life
Brownjohn was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. He died in January 2020 at the age of 90.[4]
Selected works
- Frank Arnau: The Art of the Faker
- Marcel Beyer: The Karnau Tapes
- Willy Brandt: People and Politics: The Years, 1960-75 (Schlegel-Tieck Prize)
- Thomas Brussig: Heroes Like Us (Schlegel-Tieck Prize, Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize)
- Thomas Glavinic: Night Work
- Martin Gregor-Dellin: Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century
- Lothar Günther Buchheim: The Boat
- Hans Hellmut Kirst: The Night of the Generals
- Bodo Kirchhoff: Infanta (Schlegel-Tieck Prize)
- Georg Klein: Libidissi
- Walter Moers: City of Dreaming Books
- Walter Moers: A Wild Ride Through the Night
- Dietlof Reiche: The Golden Hamster Saga
- Alain Claude Sulzer: A Perfect Waiter
- Leo Perutz: The Swedish Cavalier (Schlegel-Tieck Prize)
- Mario Giordano: Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
References
- ^ "John Maxwell Brownjohn April. 11, 1929 - Google Search". www.google.com.
- ^ "Brownjohn, John 1929– | Encyclopedia.com".
- ^ "German Literature - Goethe-Institut United Kingdom". www.goethe.de.
- ^ "Brownjohn". Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
External links
- John Brownjohn at IMDb
- INTERVIEW: John Brownjohn on Walter Moers and Translation, Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review blog, November 2012
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