Geoffrey Strachan is a noted translator of French and German literature into English.
Profile
/ref> He is best known for his renderings of the novels of French-Russian writer Andreï Makine. In addition, he has also translated works by Yasmina Réza
Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 blac ...
, Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Devi Pathareddy Appanah (born 24 May 1973 in Mahébourg, Mauritius) is a Mauritian-French author. She spent most of her teenage years in Mauritius and also worked as a journalist/columnist at ''Le Mauricien'' and ''Week-End Scope'' befor ...
, Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel (, born Eliezer Wiesel ''Eliezer Vizel''; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in Fr ...
and Jérôme Ferrari. Uniquely, he has won both the Scott-Moncrieff Prize (for translation from French) and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize
The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation is a literary translation award given by the Society of Authors in London. Translations from the German original into English are considered for the prize. The value of the prize is £3,000. (for translation from German).
Selected translations
Andrei Makine
* ''A Hero's Daughter''
* ''A Life's Music''
* ''Brief Loves That Live Forever''
* ''Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-bearer''
* ''Human Love''
* '' Le Testament Francais''
* ''Music of a Life
''Music of a Life'' () is a 2001 novella by the French writer Andreï Makine. A tale of Soviet oppression, it tells the story of a talented Russian piano player who has to abandon his career right before his first concert, flees to the countryside ...
''
* ''Once Upon the River Love''
* ''Requiem for a Lost Empire''
* ''The Crime of Olga Arbyelina''
* ''The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme''
* ''The Life of an Unknown Man''
* ''The Woman Who Waited
''The Woman Who Waited'' () is a 2004 novel by the French writer Andreï Makine. It is set in the 1970s and tells the story of a 26-year-old man who falls in love with a woman who still is faithful to her fiancé who went missing in World War II.
...
''
Others
* Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel (, born Eliezer Wiesel ''Eliezer Vizel''; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in Fr ...
: ''The Judges''
* Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (; 15 June 1928 – 2 June 2018) was an Austrian ethologist in the field of human ethology. In authoring the book which bears that title, he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to vo ...
: ''Love and Hate''
* Jerome Ferrari
Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is comm ...
: ''Where I Left My Soul''
* Melita Maschmann: ''Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self''
* Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Devi Pathareddy Appanah (born 24 May 1973 in Mahébourg, Mauritius) is a Mauritian-French author. She spent most of her teenage years in Mauritius and also worked as a journalist/columnist at ''Le Mauricien'' and ''Week-End Scope'' befor ...
: ''The Last Brother''
* Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays '' 'Art and '' God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 bl ...
: ''Adam Haberberg''
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strachan, Geoffrey
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
German–English translators
21st-century British translators
20th-century British translators