Discipline: Literature – translation

Clara Winston

Discipline: Literature – translation
MacDowell Fellowships: 1956
Clara Winston (1921–1983), was a prominent American translator of German works into English. Clara was born in New York and went to Brooklyn College. Clara and her husband Richard began translating together in the late 1930s, working with the many German exiles in New York. The Winstons translated more than 150 books as well as many other works, and they received a number of awards for their translations. In 1978, they won the American Book Award for Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth. In 1972 then won the PEN Translation Prize for their translation of Letters of Thomas Mann. Their best known translations included the works of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Albert Speer, Hermann Hesse, and Rolf Hochhuth, among others.

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Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Clara Winston worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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