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Harry Zohn
Austrian-American author and translator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harry Zohn (November 21, 1923, Vienna – June 3, 2001, Boston) was an Austrian American literary historian, essayist and translator from German into English.[2][3][4] Zohn was born in Austria. Aged 15 he fled to England in June 1938, where he was classified as an enemy alien, and worked as a farm labourer. He was subsequently joined there by his parents, and the family emigrated to the United States in 1940, settling in Boston.
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Awards
- 1960: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
- 1999: Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna
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