John E. Woods
John Edwin Woods is an American translator from German.
His translations include especially the works of Arno Schmidt, but also by Thomas Mann, Libuse Monikova, Christoph Ransmayr and Ingo Schulze.
He worked a long time in California and currently lives (2009) in Berlin.
Awards
Selected translations
- Thomas Mann Joseph and his brothers (Joseph and His Brothers)
- The Magic Mountain (Magic Mountain)
- Doctor Faustus (Doctor Faustus )
- Buddenbrooks ( Buddenbrooks )
- The facade (The Facade )
- The Stone Heart (The Stony Heart )
- The Gelehrtenrepulik (The Egghead Republic)
- KAFF also Mare Crisium ( Boondocks / Moon docks)
- List 's Dream ( Bottom's Dream)
- The School of atheists ( School for Atheists )
- Evening with a gold rim (Evening Edged in Gold)
- The Terrors of Ice and Darkness (The Terrors of Ice and Darkness )
- The Last World ( The last world)
- Morbus Kitahara ( The dog king )