H. T. Lowe-Porter

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Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter was a translator who enjoyed the exclusive right to translate the works of Thomas Mann from German into English for more than fifty years. Although her versions have minor defects, Lowe-Porter's Mann translations have, to a very great extent, helped create the popularity of this German (and very Germanic) writer in the English-speaking world. She is one of the great translators of all time, to be mentioned with Scott-Moncrieff (Proust), and Constance Garnett (Tolstoy and Dostoevsky).

Although readers of Mann's work in English have employed Lowe-Porter's renditions for decades, newer translations of Mann's works have begun to appear in recent years, most notably by John E. Woods.