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Name
  
John Brownjohn

Role
  
Translator

Awards
  
Schlegel-Tieck Prize


Nominations
  
Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation

Movies
  
The Ninth Gate, Bitter Moon, Tess, Pirates

Similar
  
Gerard Brach, Enrique Urbizu, Ghislain Cloquet, Willy Holt, Herve de Luze

John Maxwell Brownjohn is a British literary translator. He has translated more than 160 books, and won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation three times and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize once. He has also collaborated several times with the filmmaker Roman Polanski.

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 Gunther Buchheim: The Boat
  • Hans Hellmut: 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
  • Max Perutz: The Swedish Cavaliers (Schlegel-Tieck Prize)
  • Dietlof Reiche: The Golden Hamster Saga
  • Alain Claude Sulzer: A Perfect Waiter

    • References

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