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Leila Vennewitz (1912–2007)

Author of Narcissus and Goldmund

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Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) — Translator, some editions — 6,507 copies, 78 reviews
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) — Translator, some editions — 2,564 copies, 47 reviews
The Clown (1963) — Translator, some editions — 2,528 copies, 41 reviews
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959) — Translator, some editions — 1,391 copies, 21 reviews
Group Portrait With Lady (1973) — Translator, some editions — 1,353 copies, 18 reviews
Jacob the Liar (1996) — Translator, some editions — 699 copies, 15 reviews
Irish Journal (1957) — Translator, some editions — 672 copies, 9 reviews
The Invention of Curried Sausage (1993) — Translator, some editions — 633 copies, 25 reviews
And Never Said a Word (1953) — Translator, some editions — 612 copies, 10 reviews
The Train Was on Time (1949) — Translator, some editions — 593 copies, 9 reviews
The Safety Net (1979) — Translator, some editions — 478 copies, 9 reviews
The Bread of Those Early Years (1955) — Translator, some editions — 418 copies, 11 reviews
And Where Were You, Adam? (1951) — Translator, some editions — 414 copies, 9 reviews
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (2018) — Translator, some editions — 396 copies, 10 reviews
The End of a Mission (1968) — Translator, some editions — 383 copies, 6 reviews
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries (1988) — Translator, some editions — 339 copies, 1 review
Runaway Horse (1978) — Translator, some editions — 307 copies, 8 reviews
What's to Become of the Boy? Or, Something to Do with Books (1981) — Translator, some editions — 197 copies, 6 reviews
Three Faces of Fascism: Action Francaise, Italian Fascism, National Socialism (1963) — Translator, some editions — 192 copies, 1 review
Bronstein's Children (1986) — Translator, some editions — 190 copies
A Soldier's Legacy (1949) — Translator, some editions — 173 copies, 2 reviews
Life? or Theatre? (1981) — Translator, some editions — 168 copies, 7 reviews
The Father of a Murderer (1980) — Translator, some editions — 148 copies, 2 reviews
Children are Civilians Too (1976) — Translator, some editions — 131 copies, 3 reviews
The Stories of Heinrich Böll {40 stories} (1995) — Translator, some editions — 124 copies, 1 review
The Casualty (1983) — Translator, some editions — 93 copies, 3 reviews
Sleepless Days (1978) — Translator, some editions — 71 copies
Adam and The Train: Two Novels (1974) — Translator — 67 copies
The Swan Villa (1980) — Translator, some editions — 49 copies
Anniversaries II: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl. December 1967 - April 1968 (1971) — Translator, some editions — 47 copies
The Inner Man (1979) — Translator, some editions — 45 copies
Found in Translation (2018) — Translator, some editions — 44 copies
Absent Without Leave (1973) — Translator, some editions — 35 copies, 1 review
Case Histories (1974) — Translator, some editions — 32 copies
The Battle (1978) — Translator, some editions — 31 copies, 1 review
Absent without leave: Two novellas (1965) — Translator, some editions — 29 copies
Letter to Lord Liszt (1982) — Translator, some editions — 28 copies
Missing Persons and Other Essays (European Classics) (1977) — Translator, some editions — 25 copies
Peking and Moscow (1964) — Translator, some editions — 24 copies
Time of the Pheasant (1988) — Translator, some editions — 16 copies
Darkness and a Little Light (1994) — Translator, some editions — 15 copies
Attendance list for a funeral: [stories] — Translator, some editions — 3 copies

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Canonical name
Vennewitz, Leila
Other names
VENNEWITZ, Leila
Birthdate
1912
Date of death
2007
Birthplace
Hampshire, England, UK
Places of residence
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupations
translator
Relationships
Böll, Heinrich (translator)
Awards and honors
PEN Translation Prize (1979)
Short biography
Leila Vennewitz has been since 1965 the translater of Heinrich Böll into English. In 1979 she won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Böll’s And Never Said a Word. She has also translated work of Jurek Becker, Walter Kempowski, Uwe Johnson, and three other novels by Martin Walser, Runaway Horse, The Swan Villa, and The Inner Man.

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