Geoffrey Strachan

Geoffrey Strachan is a noted translator of French and German literature into English.^[1] He is best known for his renderings of the novels of French-Russian writer Andrei Makine. In addition, he has also translated works by Yasmina Réza, Nathacha Appanah, Elie Wiesel and Jérôme Ferrari. Uniquely, he has won both the Scott-Moncrieff Prize (for translation from French) and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (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
• Once Upon the River Love
• Requiem for a Lost Empire
• Requiem for the East
• The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
• The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
• The Life of an Unknown Man
• The Woman Who Waited

Others

• Elie Wiesel: The Judges
• Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: Love and Hate
• Jerome Ferrari: Where I Left My Soul
• Melita Maschmann: Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self
• Nathacha Appanah: The Last Brother
• Yasmina Reza: Adam Haberberg

References