Arnold Pomerans
Arnold Julius Pomerans(27 April 1920 – 30 May 2005) was a German-born British translator.[1]
Arnold Pomerans was born inKönigsberg,Germany on 27 April 1920 to a Jewish family. Because of growing antisemitism in Germany the family left for Yugoslavia and later South Africa. In 1948 Arnold Pomerans emigrated to England, where he became a full-time translator in the 1950s after first working as a teacher. He translated about two hundred works of fiction and non-fiction, selected from most European languages. Among the authors he translated areLouis de Broglie,Werner Heisenberg,Anne Frank,Sigmund Freud,Johan Huizinga,Jean Piaget,Jacques PresserandJan Romein.[1]His translation ofGeorge Grosz's autobiographyA Little Yes and a Big Noearned him the 1983Schlegel-Tieck Prizeand in 1997 he was awarded thePEN Translation PrizeforThe Selected Letters of Vincent Van Gogh.[2]In his obituary he was called "one of Britain's finest translators" byThe Independent.[3]
In 1956 he married Erica White and they moved toPolsteadinSuffolkthe following year. They carried out much of the translation work together. He died in Polstead of cancer on 30 May 2005, aged 85.[1][3]
References
[edit]- ^abcHopkinson, Amanda T. (September 2012). "Pomerans, Arnold Julius [Arno]".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95889.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^"Lives in Brief".The Times.5 July 2005. p. 53.
- ^abPaterson, Mark (16 June 2005)."Arnold J. Pomerans".Obituaries.The Independent.p. 39.
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