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Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (née Porter; June 15, 1876 – April 26, 1963) was an American translator and writer, best known for translating almost all of the works of Thomas Mann for their first publication in English.
30 gen 2024 · The Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator. A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading...
H.T. Lowe-Porter has 34 books on Goodreads with 18103 ratings. H.T. Lowe-Porter’s most popular book is Death in Venice.
8 set 2020 · A diiscovery of the life of Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (1876 – 1963), the sole translator of Thomas Mann from German to English.
H.T. Lowe-Porter (translator), Gonzalo Fonseca (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 50,023 ratings — published 1924 — 594 editions
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The English translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter was published in 1941 by Alfred A. Knopf. It was one of Mann's last novellas, followed only by The Tables of the Law in 1944 and The Black Swan in 1954. Set in India, the story is a jocular retelling of an ancient folk legend.
11 gen 2016 · But there are plenty of other fine choices: H.T. Lowe-Porter did one of the earlier English translations (Knopf/Vintage) in 1930, which remained the standard for decades.
