John E. Woods

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John E. Woods is a translator who specializes in translating German literature. His work includes much of the fictional prose of Arno Schmidt and the works of contemporary authors such as Ingo Schulze and Christoph Ransmayr. He has also retranslated all the major novels of Thomas Mann, a feat comparable, in simple page count, to a wholly new translation of Proust. Woods lives in Berlin.

Contents 1 Selected translations 1.1 Doris Dörrie 1.2 Thomas Mann 1.3 Libuše Moníková 1.4 Christoph Ransmayr 1.5 Arno Schmidt 1.6 Ingo Schulze 1.7 Patrick Süskind

[edit] Selected translations

[edit] Doris Dörrie

• Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing
• What Do You Want from Me?

[edit] Thomas Mann

• Joseph und seine Brüder: Joseph and His Brothers
• Der Zauberberg: Magic Mountain
• Doktor Faustus: Doctor Faustus
• Buddenbrooks: Buddenbrooks

[edit] Libuše Moníková

• Die Fassade: The Façade

[edit] Christoph Ransmayr

• Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis: The terrors of ice and darkness
• Die letzte Welt: The last world
• Morbus Kitahara: The dog king

[edit] Arno Schmidt

• Das steinerne Herz: The Stony Heart
• Die Gelehrtenrepulik: The Egghead Republic
• Kaff auch Mare Crisium: Boondocks/Moondocks
• Zettel's Traum: Bottom's Dream
• Die Schule der Atheisten: School for Atheists
• Abend mit Goldrand: Evening Edged in Gold (winner of the American Book Award and the PEN Prize for translation)

[edit] Ingo Schulze

[edit] Patrick Süskind

• Perfume (winner of the PEN Prize for translation in 1987)
• The Pigeon