David Bellos
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David Bellos is an English-born translator and biographer. Bellos currently teaches French literature at Princeton University in the United States.
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 also 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.
Bellos has also written a number of award-winning literary biographies.
[edit] Translations
- Perec: Life: A User's Manual, 1987 (French-American Foundation's translation prize)
- Perec: W, or, the Memory of Childhood, 1988
- Perec: Things: A Story of the Sixties, 1990
- Perec: 53 Days, 1992
- Fred Vargas: Have Mercy On Us All, 2003
- Fred Vargas: Seeking Whom He May Devour, 2004
- Ismail Kadare, several novels
[edit] Biographies
- Georges Perec. A Life in Words, 1993. (Prix Goncourt de la biographie)
- Jacques Tati. His Life and Art, 1999
- Biography on Romain Gary, in progress.
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