tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post8708520801391847382..comments2024-03-28T12:10:31.018-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: Picture of Nobody - Philip OwensDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-3242015433108446382022-10-13T19:21:20.444-04:002022-10-13T19:21:20.444-04:00It would seem that Owens also translated a few wor...It would seem that Owens also translated a few works by the German author Hans Fallada. <br /><br />In a new Penguin edition to the latter's 'Iron Gustav: A Berlin Family Chronicle' its translator Nicolas Jacobs acknowledges his debt Owens earlier translation and reveals that Owens died in June 1945 while serving in the (one assumes the British) Intelligence Corps during the Greek siderealpresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01982099468847067257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-90717943334436136192019-08-19T20:54:02.089-04:002019-08-19T20:54:02.089-04:00Tantalizing precis, as usual, Mark. Many thanks. B...Tantalizing precis, as usual, Mark. Many thanks. But an anthology about landladies--who would have imagined? Given such varied achievement, it seems likely that Owens must have been killed during the war. --mdMichael Dirdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00901144234768066002noreply@blogger.com