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J. Maxwell Brownjohn

Born

in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, The United Kingdom

April 11, 1929

Died

January 09, 2020

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John Maxwell Brownjohn was one of Britain's leading translators of German literature and has won acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for translations of titles including My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944 by Martin Doerry. Among his most recent awards are the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Thomas Brussig's Heroes Like Us and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for his translation of Marcel Beyer's The Karnau Tapes. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 31,954 ratings · 3,812 reviews · 101 distinct works

	Momo by Michael Ende, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator) 4.34 avg rating — 100,726 ratings — published 1973 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Zamonia, #1) by Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 28,556 ratings — published 1999 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City of Dreaming Books (Dreaming Books, #1) (Zamonia, #4) by Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn, Paul Michael Garcia 4.40 avg rating — 25,232 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Karma by David Safier, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 23,750 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eye Collector by Sebastian Fitzek (Goodreads Author), J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translation) 4.12 avg rating — 17,928 ratings — published 2010 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures (Zamonia, #3) by Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator) 4.53 avg rating — 13,907 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Culinary Tale from Zamonia by Optimus Yarnspinner (Zamonia, #5) by Walter Moers, J. Maxwell Brownjohn, Bronson Pinchot 4.22 avg rating — 9,339 ratings — published 2007 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splinter by Sebastian Fitzek (Goodreads Author), J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 9,593 ratings — published 2008 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr, J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator) 3.35 avg rating — 8,950 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silent Past 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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December 2020 Monthly Read Poll: Anything Goes

Unwitting Street by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull

11 votes, 37.9%

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by Danusia Stok

9 votes, 31.0%

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu

7 votes, 24.1%

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers, translated by John Brownjohn

2 votes, 6.9%

29 total votes

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