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John E. Woods

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John E. Woods

John E. Woods is a translator who specializes in German literature. Among the writers he has translated are Arno Schmidt, Ingo Schulze, Christoph Ransmayr, and Thomas Mann. He received the prestigious Goethe-Medaille from the Goethe Institute in 2008. Woods lives in Berlin.

Articles by John E. Woods

Viktoria Was Home All Alone

By Martin Auer

And the soil began to move and a beanstalk began to grow out of it. It grew and grew and grew, higher and higher.

Translated from German by John E. Woods