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British literary translator (1929–2020)
John Brownjohn
BornJohn Maxwell Brownjohn
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Hertfordshire, England
Died 6 January 2020(2020-01-06) (aged 90) Occupation Literary translatorJohn Maxwell Brownjohn (11 April 1929[1][2] – 6 January 2020) was a British literary translator.[3]
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.
Brownjohn also collaborated with the filmmaker Roman Polanski on Tess (1979), Pirates (1986), Bitter Moon (1992), The Ninth Gate (1999) and The Pianist (2002).
Brownjohn was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. He died in January 2020 at the age of 90.[4]
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