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Aleid Van Rhijn
ALEID VAN RHIJN (September 5, 1908 - November 17, 1989) was the pseudonym of Dutch journalist and author Aleid Berend van Mourik.
ARNOLD JULIUS POMERANS (27 April 1920 - 30 May 2005) was a German-...lihat lebih banyakALEID VAN RHIJN (September 5, 1908 - November 17, 1989) was the pseudonym of Dutch journalist and author Aleid Berend van Mourik.
ARNOLD JULIUS POMERANS (27 April 1920 - 30 May 2005) was a German-born British translator.
Born in Königsberg, Germany in 1920 to a Jewish family who left for Yugoslavia and later South Africa, Pomerans he emigrated to England in 194. There he became a full-time translator in the 1950s, after first working as a teacher, translating some two hundred works of fiction and non-fiction, selected from most European languages. Among the authors he translated were Louis de Broglie, Anne Frank, Sigmund Freud, Johan Huizinga and Jean Piaget.
His translation of George Grosz’s autobiography earned him the 1983 Schlegel-Tieck Prize and in 1997 he was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for The Selected Letters of Vincent Van Gogh. In his obituary he was called “one of Britain’s finest translators” by The Independent.
In 1956 he married Erica White and the pair carried out much of the translation work together. He died in Polstead, Suffolk of cancer in 2005, aged 85.lihat lebih sedikit