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John Brownjohn

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John Brownjohn is 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.

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Average rating: 4.10 · 8,775 ratings · 1,367 reviews · 44 distinct works

	Where Do We Go From Here? 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Zamonia, #1) by Walter Moers, John Brownjohn (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 3,504 ratings — published 1999 — 40 editions	My rating:
	The City of Dreaming Books (Dreaming Books, #1) (Zamonia, #4) by Walter Moers, John Brownjohn (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 2,905 ratings — published 2004 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures (Zamonia, #3) by Walter Moers, John Brownjohn (Translator) 4.39 avg rating — 1,718 ratings — published 2003 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Mimus by Lilli Thal, John Brownjohn (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	My rating:
	I, Freddy (The Golden Hamster Saga, #1) by Dietlof Reiche, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator), John Brownjohn (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Haunting Of Freddy (The Golden Hamster Saga, #4) by Dietlof Reiche, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator), John Brownjohn (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Freddy To The Rescue (The Golden Hamster Saga, #3) by Dietlof Reiche, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator), John Brownjohn (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 160 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ghost Ship by Dietlof Reiche, John Brownjohn (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Night Work by Thomas Glavinic, John Brownjohn (Translator) 3.13 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:

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