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Helen Wolff

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Kurt Wolff was killed in a traffic accident on his way to a meeting in 1963. Wolff continued running the imprint until she retired in 1986. The imprint continued after she left. Wolff was awarded the Inter Nationes Award for Literature and the Arts by the West German Government in 1981 as well as the
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where she went from trainee to being in charge of art books for Kurt Wolff Press. The Pantheon imprint where she worked was sold to a Parisian company, and Wolff went there as part of the deal. The Nazis closed the publishing house and the family fled to the
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imprint at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Wolff had an advantage when selecting books from Europe, she could attend the Frankfurt book fair and read the book in German, French, Italian or Turkish, getting an advantage over other publishers.
317: 426: 416: 382: 411: 165:. Wolff never published any of her own work. She wrote, but believed a publisher shouldn't publish. However, after her death, her novel 257: 299: 421: 281: 69:, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1906. The family spoke German, Turkish and Serbian. They spent time living in 375: 186: 431: 211: 178: 131: 119: 368: 158: 406: 401: 145: 234: 189:, was born in 1934 in Nice. Kurt Wolff had two previous children from his first marriage. 136: 126: 66: 352: 98: 395: 150: 91: 106: 97:
They arrived in New York in 1941 almost penniless. They founded a new imprint of
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Helen Mosel was born to a German father and a Hungarian/Austrian mother in
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and learned English. She discovered her gift for languages.
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with her husband. The Pantheon line became an imprint of
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Macedonia
Üsküb
Vienna
Munich
United States
Pantheon Books
Locarno
Random House
Hanover, New Hampshire
Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
Georges Simenon
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
Italo Calvino
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Kurt Wolff
London
Christian Wolff



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