John Brownjohn


John Maxwell Brownjohn was a British literary translator. He 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 also collaborated with the filmmaker Roman Polanski on Tess, Pirates, Bitter Moon, The Ninth Gate and The Pianist.
Brownjohn was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. He died in January 2020 at the age of 90.

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