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Perhaps her best known publication was ''Short Plays from Twelve Countries'', a collection of English one act plays selected, some translated and adapted, and edited by [[Winifred Katzin]] (London: George G Harrap and Co., 1937).   
 
Perhaps her best known publication was ''Short Plays from Twelve Countries'', a collection of English one act plays selected, some translated and adapted, and edited by [[Winifred Katzin]] (London: George G Harrap and Co., 1937).   
  
In South Africa the Eastern European one-act plays ''[[The Jews of Hodos]]'' by Sandor Martinescu and ''[[Diamond Cuts Diamond]]'' by Nikolai Gogol were both performed locally and published as performance texts by [[DALRO]] in 1969).  
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In South Africa the Eastern European one-act plays ''[[The Jews of Hodos]]'' by Sandor Martinescu and ''[[Diamond Cuts Diamond]]'' by Nikolai Gogol - both translated by Katzin - were performed locally and published (re-published?) as performance texts by [[DALRO]] in 1969.
  
 
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Winifred Katzin (fl. 1930-). Translator.

Biography

She seems to have been a prolific translator and adaptor of plays. Among her translations over the years include The Failures by H.R. Lenormand (1923),

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Perhaps her best known publication was Short Plays from Twelve Countries, a collection of English one act plays selected, some translated and adapted, and edited by Winifred Katzin (London: George G Harrap and Co., 1937).

In South Africa the Eastern European one-act plays The Jews of Hodos by Sandor Martinescu and Diamond Cuts Diamond by Nikolai Gogol - both translated by Katzin - were performed locally and published (re-published?) as performance texts by DALRO in 1969.

Sources

Jo Mielziner: Other Works, IMDb[1]

Gosher, 1988.

NELM catalogue.


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