Philip Owens

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Philip Owens (1901 - 1945) was an English poet, novelist, translator and editor of the 1920s and 1930s. He appears in the 1930 anthology European Caravan, edited by Samuel Putnam, which also introduced much of the world to Jacob Bronowski, William Empson, and Samuel Beckett. He was a frequent contributor to Jack Lindsay's literary journal, The London Aphrodite . He is also the author of a novel, Hobohemians, [1] and the editor of Bed and Sometimes Breakfast: An Anthology of Landladies. [2]

Owens translated Hans Fallada's novels Wolf Among Wolves (1937) and Iron Gustav (1938) into English for Putnam. [3]

He was killed in June 1945 while serving in the Intelligence Corps during the Greek Civil War. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Hobohemians. A study of luxurious poverty., Author: Philip Owens, Publisher: London, (Book, 1930), Series: Mandrake booklets, WorldCat.org
  2. ↑ Bed and sometimes breakfast; an anthology of landladies, Author: Philip Owens, Publisher: London, The Sylvan Press Book, 1944) WorldCat.org
  3. 1 2 Jacobs, Nicholas, "Note on Translation", in Fallada, Hans (2014), Iron Gustav: A Berlin Family Chronicle, Penguin Random House, pp. xviv - xx, ISBN   9780141196534


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