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Iris Urwin

Urwin Lewit, Iris

– November 27, 2008

Birth place: Pontypridd, Wales, UK

Welsh woman who married a Czech during WW2 and followed him to Prague afterwards; since 1950es she translated fiction into English, mostly for the Czechoslovak foreign-language publishing house. Her surname appeared in various forms, just her, her husband's or both, with the Czech suffix -ová or without; there are even several misspellings.
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