Winifred Katzin
Winifred Katzin (fl. 1930-). Translator.
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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 were both performed locally and published as performance texts by DALRO in 1969).
Sources
Gosher, 1988.
NELM catalogue.
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