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British translator
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John Maxwell Brownjohn
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Biography
Introduction
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
- 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