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John Brownjohn
John Maxwell Brownjohn (11 April 1929 – 6 January 2020) was a British literary translator. 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. 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'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rickmansworth
Rickmansworth () is a town in southwest Hertfordshire, England, about northwest of central London and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway. The town is mainly to the north of the Grand Union Canal (formerly the Grand Junction Canal) and the River Colne. The town of Watford is to the northeast. Rickmansworth is the administrative seat of the Three Rivers District Council. The confluence of the River Chess and the River Gade with the Colne in Rickmansworth inspired the district's name. The enlarged Colne flows south to form a major tributary of the River Thames. The town is served by the Metropolitan line of the London Underground and Chiltern Railways from London Marylebone to Aylesbury railway station. Toponymy The name Rickmansworth comes from the Saxon name ''Ryckmer'', the local landowner, and ''worth'' meaning a farm or stockade. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as the Manor of Prichemaresworde. Other spellings include Rykemarwurthe (1119–46), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Gregor-Dellin
Martin Gregor-Dellin (real name Martin Gustav Schmidt) was a German writer noted for his scholarship on the composer Richard Wagner. He was born in 1926 in Naumburg (Saale The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale (german: Sächsische Saale) and Thuringian Saale (german: Thüringische Saale), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Franconian Saale ...) and died in 1988 in Grobenzell. His book ''Richard Wagner: Sein Leben, Sein Werk, Sein Jahrhundert'' has been translated into multiple languages. References German biographers Male biographers Richard Wagner People from Naumburg (Saale) 1926 births 1988 deaths {{Germany-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Deaths
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1929 Births
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British Translators
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Leo Perutz
Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic) and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived in Vienna until the Nazi ''Anschluss'' in 1938, when he emigrated to Palestine. According to the biographical note on the Arcade Publishing editions of the English translations of his novels, Leo was a mathematician who formulated an algebraic equation which is named after him; he worked as a statistician for an insurance company. He was related to the biologist Max Perutz. During the 1950s he returned occasionally to Austria, spending the summer and autumn months in the market town of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut resort region and in Vienna. He died in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl in 1957. He wrote his first novel, ''The Third Bullet'', in 1915 while recovering from a wound sustained in the First World War. In all Perutz wrote el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Claude Sulzer
Alain Claude Sulzer (born 17 February 1953) is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS .... Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of Julien Green's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the '' NZZ''. He has published more than ten books and has won a number of literary awards in the process, such as the Rauris Literature Prize (1984), or the Hermann-Hesse-Preis (2009). His novel ''A Perfect Waiter'' won the Prix Medicis Etranger and the and has been translated into several languages. Another novel ''Aus den Fugen'' has also met with critical and commercial success and is set to be translated into English. ''Die Jugend ist e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietlof Reiche
Dietlof Reiche (born 1941) is a German author of children's books and books for young adults. He was born in Dresden and grew up in the village of Nördlingen. He studied engineering at university and was a teacher at Darmstadt Technical University for a while. As an author, he is known above all for his series ''The Golden Hamster Saga''. His many prizes include the German Juvenile Literature Award and the Oldenburg's Children's Book Prize. He lives in Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ..., Germany. References Living people 1941 births German male writers Date of birth missing (living people) Writers from Dresden {{germany-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Moers
Walter Moers (; born 24 May 1957 in Mönchengladbach) is a German comic creator and author. Life and work Moers held odd jobs after leaving school before starting a commercial apprenticeship. He taught himself how to draw, and has been publishing since 1984. He first became known for cartoon-like comics that were marked by an ironic view of the world and a conscious violation of political correctness. Many of his works first appeared in the satirical magazine ''Titanic''. Although he doesn't contribute to the magazine anymore, he's still listed as contributor. His last work published in 'Titanic' was the Superhero-Parody 'Deadman' (not to be confused with the DC-Comics Superhero of the same name, Moers' character was just a dead man lying in a coffin for three pages without a word or any change in the pictures). He rarely allows being photographed or interviewed, and every aspect of his biography (including name and date of birth) should be treated with caution. His best-kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Klein (writer)
Georg Klein (born 1953 in Augsburg) is a German novelist. He lives in ( Bunde), Lower Saxony. His wife is also a writer. In September 2012 he was keynote speaker at the British Council sponsored Edinburgh World Writers' Conference in Berlin. Having worked for many years as a ghost-writer Klein was discovered in 2001 with his detective story ''Barbar Rosa''. Awards * 1999: Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau * 2000: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize * 2010: Leipzig Book Fair Prize The Leipzig Book Fair Prize () is a literary award assigned annually during the Leipzig Book Fair to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation". The Leipzig Book Fair Prize has been award ... for Fiction * 2012: Lower Saxony State Prize * 2022: Großer Preis des Deutschen Literaturfonds Works * ''Libidissi.'' novel. Fest, Berlin 1998. * ''Anrufung des blinden Fisches.'' short stories. Fest, Berlin 1999. * ''Barbar Rosa. Eine Detektivge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodo Kirchhoff
Bodo Kirchhoff (born 6 July 1948) is a German writer and novelist. He was born in Hamburg before moving with his family to Kirchzarten in the Black Forest in 1955, which he describes as a culture shock. In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television, such as long-runner ''Tatort'', and has written movie screenplays. One of his best-known novels is ''Infanta'' (1990), which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2016, his novel, which features an African migrant in Italy, ''Encounter'' won the German Book Prize. Life Bodo Kirchhoff received his high school diploma in 1968. After this he spent two years in the military, followed by a year selling ice cream in the United States of America. From 1972 to 1979 he studied pedagogy and psychology at Frankfurt University and completed his doctoral thesis on Jacques Lacan. During this period he was noticed by Suhrkamp, with whom he published until he switched to Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
