New Lives

A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

John E. Woods is the distinguished translator of many books — most notably Arno Schmidt’s

Evening Edged in Gold,

for which he won both the American Book Award for translation and the PEN Translation Prize in 1981; Patrick Süskind’s

Perfume,

for which he again won the PEN Translation Prize in 1987; Christoph Ransmayr’s

Terrors of Ice and Darkness, The Last World

(for which he was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 1991), and

The Dog King;

Thomas Mann’s

Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain

(for which, together with his translation of Arno Schmidt’s

Nobodaddy’s Children,

he was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize in 1996),

Doctor Faustus,

and

Joseph and His Brothers;

and Ingo Schulze’s

33 Moments of Happiness

and

Simple Stories.

In 2008 he was awarded the Goethe Medallion of the Goethe Institut. He lives in Berlin.