Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.
Born in
Cape Town
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, Clive Wake studied at
Cape Town University and
the Sorbonne. He taught at the
University of Rhodesia, and the
University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is Emeritus Professor of French and African Literature.
[Sony Lab'Ou Tansi, ''The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez '', 1995, p. 1.] He served as Lord Mayor of Canterbury for the Liberal Democrats party and was Vice-Chancellor of Chaucer College Canterbury.
Works
* (ed. with
John Reed) ''A Book of African Verse'', London: Heinemann Educational, 1964.
African Writers Series 8. Later edition published (1984) as ''A New Book of African Verse''.
* (tr. with John Reed) ''Prose and Poetry'', by
Léopold Sédar Senghor. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
* (ed.) ''An Anthology of African and Malagasy Poetry in French''. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
* (tr. with John Reed) ''Nocturnes'', by
Léopold Sédar Senghor. London: Heinemann Educational, 1969.
African Writers Series 71
* (tr.) ''
The Money-Order with White Genesis'' by
Sembène Ousmane. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1972.
African Writers Series 92. (Translation of ''Vehi ciosane; ou, Blanche-genèse; suivi du Mandat'', Paris: Présence Africaine, 1965.)
* (ed. and tr. with John Reed) ''French African Verse'', London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1972.
African Writers Series 106.
* (tr.) ''The Wound'', by
Malick Fall. London: Heinemann, 1973. Translated from the French ''La Plaie''.
* ''The Novels of
Pierre Loti'', The Hague: Mouton, 1974
* (tr. with John Reed) ''Translations from the Night: Selected Poems of
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March 1901 or 1903 – 22 June 1937), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy people, Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. Par ...
''. London: Heinemann.
African Writers Series 167
* (with Martin Banham) ''African Theatre Today'', 1976
* (tr.) ''Xala'', by Sembène Ousmane, 1976
* (tr. with John Reed) ''Wirriyamu'' by Williams Sassine, 1980
* (tr.) ''The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez'', by
Sony Lab'Ou Tansi. Oxford; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995.
African Writers Series
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French–English translators
University of Paris alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zimbabwe
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