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John Brownjohn
Born
John Maxwell Brownjohn

(1929-04-11)11 April 1929
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England
Died6 January 2020(2020-01-06) (aged 90)
OccupationLiterary 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

Refe Lionsrences

  1. ^ https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&tbm=bks&sxsrf=ACYBGNTNXD2IgdnBsgaUiAYRUJtLAY2MCQ:1578560970851&q=John+Maxwell+Brownjohn+April.+11,+1929&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy1rHvlfbmAhWQ-6QKHahaBMsQBQgjKAA&biw=412&bih=652&dpr=2.63
  2. ^ "Brownjohn, John 1929– | Encyclopedia.com".
  3. ^ Profile
  4. ^ "Brownjohn". Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2020.

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