David Bellos

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David Bellos (born 1945) is a British academic, translator and biographer.[1]:{{{3}}} He is the Meredith Howland Pyne professor of French and comparative literature at Princeton University in the United States,[2] and was director of its translation and intercultural communication programme from 2007 to 2019.[citation needed]

Biography

Bellos has written literary biographies of Romain Gary and Georges Perec, and has published work on Honoré de Balzac; his The Novel of the Century relates the writing of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He has also written a biography of the filmmaker Jacques Tati, Jacques Tati: His Life and Art, and appeared in The Magnificent Tati, a documentary about him.[citation needed]

Other works include an introduction to translation studies, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and The Meaning of Everything (2011)[3] and Who Owns This Sentence. A History of Copyrights and Wrongs, written with Alexandre Montagu and published in 2024.

He has translated much of the work of Perec into English, including the novel Life: A User's Manual.

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. His translations were done from previous French translations.[4]

He is the father of writer and broadcaster Alex Bellos.[5]

Awards and honours

Publications

Translations

Biographies

  • Georges Perec. A Life in Words, 1993. (Prix Goncourt de la biographie). French edition, 1994. Japanese edition, 2014. Hebrew edition, 2016. New edition in French, 2022; German translation, 2023; Turkish and Chinese translations in progress.
  • Jacques Tati: His Life and Art, 1999. French edition, 2002; Italian edition, 2022. German edition forthcoming in 2024
  • Romain Gary. A Tall Story, Harvill Secker, November 2010

Other books

  • Balzac Criticism in France, 1850–1900. The Making of a Reputation. Oxford, 1976
  • La Cousine Bette. A Critical Guide. London, 1981
  • Old Goriot (Landmarks of World Literature). Cambridge, 1987. Hebrew translation, Tek Aviv, 1990.
  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. London and New York, 2011. Paperback edition, 2012.
    French translation by Daniel Loayza as Le poisson & le bananier, Flammarion, 2012, republished in 2017 as La Traduction dans tous ses états. Spanish translation by Vicente Campos, as Un Pez en la higuera. Ariel, 2012. German translation by Silvia Morawetz as Was macht der Fisch in meinem Ohr?, Eichborn, 2013. Russian translation by Natalia Shahova, Azbuka, 2019. Traditional Chinese translation, Rye Field, Taipei, 2019. Also translated into Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Persian.
  • The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables. London and New York, 2017. Korean edition, 2018. Japanese edition, 2018. Chinese edition, 2019

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  1. ↑ Bellos, David (1945-....) (in French). Catalogue général. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Accessed April 2024.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 David Bellos at Princeton University
  3. ↑ Is That A Fish In Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything Archived 24 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine at Janklow & Nesbit
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Englishing of Ismail Kadare" by David Bellos, complete review Quarterly, vol. VI, issue 2 – May 2005
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