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3 unusual facts about Uwe Johnson


Uwe Johnson

In 1974, he moved to Sheerness on the English Isle of Sheppey; shortly after, he broke off work on Jahrestage due partly to health problems and partly to writer's block.

On 27 February 1962 Johnson married Elisabeth Schmidt who later was accused to be in a love affair with the Czech Mozart scholar Tomislav Volek.

Translator of John Knowles's A Separate Peace (1959) as In diesem Land (1963)



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