Winifred Katzin

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Winifred Katzin (1894-1994). Translator.

Biography

She seems to have been a prolific translator and even adaptor of plays. Among her translations over the years include The Failures by H.R. Lenormand (1923), Dybbuk by S. Ansky (translated with Henry G. Alsberg, 1925),

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]

Sydney Paul Gosher. 1988. A Historical and Critical Survey of the South African One-Act Play Written in English. Unpublished D.Litt. et Phil. Thesis, University of South Africa.


NELM catalogue.


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