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Carol Janet Brown Janeway (February 1, 1944 – August 3, 2015) was an editor and literary translator into English. She was best known for her translations 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 graduation with a first class degree, she worked at John Farquharson, a literary agency in London. In 1970 she moved to New York where she joined the publisher Alfred A. Knopf. She became a senior editor, responsible for purchasing publishing rights from international publishers, and began her parallel career in literary translation, mainly from the German. Among the authors Janeway edited was George MacDonald Fraser. She also published Elsa Morante, Heinrich Böll, Imre Kertesz, Thomas Mann and Patrick Süskind. An early translation by Janeway was ''Das Boot'' by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Her translation of ''The Reader'' by Bernhard Schlink and ''Embers'' by Sandor Marai were lauded.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carol Brown Janeway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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