André Maurois
He translated over 150 books into German, including the work of several important English-language writers: George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", and many works by Henry Miller, William Somerset Maugham, Victoria Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. He also translated from French the work of his friends Jean Cocteau, André Gide and André Maurois.