Carol Brown Janeway
Carol Janet Brown Janeway (born February 1, 1944 in Edinburgh ; died August 3, 2015 in New York City ) was a British translator and editor.
Life
Carol Brown grew up in Edinburgh as the daughter of a clerk and a librarian in an educated middle class family. She studied languages at Girton College , Cambridge and then worked for a literary agent in London.
Brown married the US stockbroker William H. Janeway in 1969 and moved to New York. For Publisher Alfred A. Knopf she took Robert Gottlieb . There she became a literary agent for the international market and began translating literary texts into English. She specialized in contemporary German literature. It took her seven and a half years to translate The Man without Qualities .
Among the authors she edited at Knopf and later Random House were Heinrich Böll , José Donoso , George MacDonald Fraser , Imre Kertész , Ivan Klima , Thomas Mann , Yukio Mishima , Elsa Morante , Robert Musil and Patrick Süskind .
She received the Friedrich Ulfers Prize in 2013 and the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature from the British literary magazine Words Without Borders in 2014 .
Translations (selection)
- Thomas Bernhard : My Prizes ( My prices )
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim : Das Boot ( Das Boot )
- Daniel Kehlmann : Measuring the World ( Measuring the World )
- Zvi Kolitz : Yosl Rakover Talks to God ( Yossl Rakover ret tsu Got )
- Sandor Marai : Embers (from the French and German translation) ( Die Glut )
- Robert Musil : qualities The Man without ( The Man Without Qualities )
- Margriet de Moor : The Storm ( De verdronkene )
- Yasmina Reza : Desolation . Essay. ( Une désolation )
- Ferdinand von Schirach : Crime ( crime )
- Ferdinand von Schirach : Guilt ( guilt )
- Bernhard Schlink : The Reader ( The Reader )
- Hans-Ulrich Treichel : Lost ( The Lost One )
- Binjamin Wilkomirski : Fragments. Memories of a Wartime Childhood ( Fragments. From a childhood 1939–1948 )
literature
- Hannes Stein : What a lover . Interview, in: Literary World , April 13, 2013, p. 2
- Detlef Felken : On the death of Carol Brown Janeway , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 4, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Carol Brown Janeway in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Carol Brown Janeway in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Sam Roberts: Carol Brown Janeway , in: The New York Times , Aug 6, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knopf was unable to find a translator for the Hungarian original. See the interview by Hannes Stein, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown Janeway, Carol |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Carol Janet (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British translator and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 2015 |
| Place of death | New York City |