John Brownjohn
John Brownjohn is an experienced and versatile literary translator with almost 200 books to his credit. These range from popular bestsellers like The Night of the Generals and The Boat to the political memoirs of Willy Brandt and scholarly studies such as Martin Gregor-Dellin's definitive biography of Richard Wagner. His work has won him numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (three times), the US Pen, and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for Marcel Beyer's The Karnau Tapes amd Thomas Brussig's Heroes Like Us. In addition to co-writing several films with Roman Polanski, he has translated the filmscripts of many screenplays for French and German film production companies, among them Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose.