Carol Brown Janeway Explained

Carol Brown Janeway
Birth Date:1944 2, df=y
Birth Place:Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Death Place:New York City
Occupation:Editor, translator

Carol Janet Brown Janeway (1 February 1944 – 3 August 2015) was a Scottish-American editor and literary translator into English. She is best known for her translation of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader.

Biography

Carol Janet Brown was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her father Robin Brown was a chartered accountant, while her mother was a director of the Ranfurly Library, specialising in the translation of medieval French and German lyrics. She attended St George's School, Edinburgh and went on to study modern and medieval languages at Girton College, Cambridge. After graduating with a first-class degree, she worked at John Farquharson, a literary agency in London.[1]

In 1970 she moved to New York, where she joined the publisher Alfred A. Knopf.[2] She became a senior editor, responsible for purchasing publishing rights from international publishers,[3] and began her parallel career in literary translation, mainly from German.[4]

Among the authors Janeway edited was George MacDonald Fraser.[5] She also published Heinrich Böll, Imre Kertész, Thomas Mann, José Donoso, Ivan Klima, Yukio Mishima, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil and Patrick Süskind.[6]

An early translation by Janeway was Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Her translations of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and Embers by Sandor Marai were lauded.[6]

Personal life

Her first marriage to William H. Janeway[1] was dissolved. Later, she married Erwin Glikes, who died in 1994.[7]

Death

She died of cancer on 3 August 2015, aged 71, in New York City.[8]

Selected translations

From German

From Yiddish

From Dutch

From French

Awards

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. News: The New York Times. Carol Brown engaged to William H. Janeway. 6 June 1969. 5 August 2015.
  2. News: Zum Tod von Carol Brown Janeway. German. Süddeutsche Zeitung. Detlef. Felken. 4 August 2015. 5 August 2015.
  3. Book: Rectanus, Mark W.. German Literature in the United States: Licensing Translations in the International Marketplace. 1990. Otto Harrassowitz. 978-3-447-02979-7. 87–.
  4. News: The Wall Street Journal. Fiction's Global Crime Wave. Alter. Alexandra. 1 July 2010.
  5. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 18. 2. 1976. Bargainnier. Earl F.. The Flashman Papers: Picaresque and Satiric Pastiche. 10.1080/00111619.1976.10690140 .
  6. News: The New York Times. Carol Brown Janeway, Translator and Executive, Dies at 71. Sam. Roberts. 6 August 2015.
  7. News: The New York Times. Erwin A. Glikes, 56, Publisher Of Intellectual Nonfiction, Dies. Richard. Bernstein. 16 May 1994.
  8. Web site: The Bookseller. Death of Carol Brown Janeway. 4 August 2015. Benedicte. Page.
  9. News: Carol Brown Janeway, Award-Winning Editor, Dead at 71. Associated Press. The New York Times. 3 August 2015.
  10. Web site: Carol Brown Janeway to Receive 2014 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. Rohan. Kamicheril. Words without Borders. 6 June 2014.

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