David Bellos
David Bellos is an English-born translator and biographer. Bellos currently teaches French and Italian and Comparative literature at Princeton University in the United States.[1]
Bellos' research topics have included Balzac and Georges Perec. Bellos published an award-winning translation of Perec's most famous novel, Life: A User's Manual in 1987. He won the first Man Booker International Prize for translation in 2005 for his translations of works by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, despite not speaking Albanian; the translations were done from previous French translations.[2]
Bellos has written a number of award-winning literary biographies and a popular introduction to translation studies, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and The Meaning of Everything" (Particular Books/Faber&Faber, 2011).
He also appears in The Magnificent Tati, a 60-minute documentary on the film-maker Jacques Tati.[3]
Translations
- Georges Perec: Life: A User's Manual, 1987 (French-American Foundation's translation prize); new edition, 2008
- Georges Perec: W, or the Memory of Childhood, 1988
- Georges Perec: Things: A Story of the Sixties, 1990
- Georges Perec: 53 Days, 1992
- Ismail Kadare: The Pyramid, 1995
- Ismail Kadare:The File on H, 1996
- Georges Ifrah: A Universal History of Numbers, 2000
- Ismail Kadare: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, 2001
- Fred Vargas: Have Mercy On Us All, 2003
- Fred Vargas: Seeking Whom He May Devour, 2004
- Ismail Kadare: The Successor, 2005
- Ismail Kadare: Agamemnon's Daughter, 2006
- Ismail Kadare: The Siege, 2008
- Hélène Berr: Journal, 2008
- Georges Perec: Thoughts of Sorts, 2009
- Romain Gary: Hocus Bogus, 2010
- Georges Perec: the art & craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise, 2011
Biographies
- Georges Perec. A Life in Words, 1993. (Prix Goncourt de la biographie). French edition, 1994
- Jacques Tati. His Life and Art, 1999. French edition, 2002
- Romain Gary. A Tall Story, Harvill Secker, November 2010
Other Books
Balzac Criticism in France, 1850-1900. The Making of a reputation. Oxford, 1976 Balzac, Old Goriot, Cambridge, 1987 Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. Particular Books (UK) and Faber&Faber (USA), 2011. A French translation (by Daniel Loayza) is due out from Flammarion in January 2012
References
- ^ David Bellos at Princeton University
- ^ "The Englishing of Ismail Kadare" by David Bellos, complete review Quarterly, vol. VI, issue 2 – May 2005
- ^ The Magnificent Tati at IMDb
External links
- "I, Translator" by David Bellos, The New York Times (20 March 2010)
- Review of Georges Perec: A Life in Words by Alice Kaplan
- David Bellos at IMDb
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