John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
John E. Woods in Weimar, Germany, in 2008 after receiving the Goethe Medal for his work as a translator. Among the other German writers whose work he rendered into English was Arno Schmidt, whose Joycean wordplay presented a daunting challenge. John E. Woods, an award-winning translator of the…
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