John E. Woods (Translator)

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John Edwin Woods is an award-winning translator specializing in the translation of German-language works. He has translated Arno Schmidt, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Günter Grass, and many contemporary authors. He has won the 1981 U.S. National Book Award in category Translation, the PEN Prize for translation (twice), the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, the Ungar German Translation Award in 1995, and the Goethe-Medaille from the Goethe Institute in 2008.

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Nobodaddy’s Children

Arno Schmidt
Modernist 20th Century German Literature

In some modernist novels that I’ve read, I’ve noticed a particular trade-off that sometimes happens between form and narrative. I was pleased to see that Arno Schmidt is a writer that can perform the delicate balancing act without leaving the narrative behind to do so. This is a review of Nobodaddy’s Children.