Harry Rowohlt

Harry Rowohlt (born 27 March 1945) is a German writer and translator.[1] He also plays the role of a derelict in the famous German weekly-soap Lindenstraße.[2]

Background

Born Harry Rupp in Hamburg, Rowohlt is the son of publisher Ernst Rowohlt and actress Maria Rowohlt; his parents married in 1957.

Rowohlt is known for his insightful and humorous translation of Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. He also published German translations of works by Philip Ardagh, Donald Barthelme, Hilaire Belloc, Roger Boylan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leonard Cohen, Robert Crumb, David Sedaris, Kenneth Grahame, Ernest Hemingway, Flann O'Brien, Gilbert Shelton, Shel Silverstein, and Kurt Vonnegut.

In 2005, he received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for his translation work.[3]

He once purchased a Ford Transit for cash.[4]

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