John O. Reed

John O. Reed (born 1929) is an anthologist and translator of African literature.^[1]

With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series. He has also translated work by Ferdinand Oyono and Williams Sassine.

Works

(with Clive Wake) A bibliography of modern creative writing in French from Madagascar, Salisbury, 1963
(ed. with Clive Wake) A Book of African Verse, London: Heinemann Educational, 1964. African Writers Series 8. Later edition published (1984) as A new book of African verse.
(tr. with Clive Wake) Prose and poetry, by Léopold Sédar Senghor. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
(tr.) Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono. London: Heinemann, 1966. African Writers Series 29.
(tr.) The Old Man and the Medal, by Ferdinand Oyono. London: Heinemann, 1967. African Writers Series 39.
(tr. with Clive Wake) Nocturnes, by Léopold Sédar Senghor. London: Heinemann Educational, 1969. African Writers Series 71
(ed. and tr. with Clive Wake) French African Verse, London, etc.: Heinemann Educational, 1972. African Writers Series 106.
(tr. with Clive Wake) Translations from the night : Selected poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. London: Heinemann, 1975. African Writers Series 167
(tr.) Wirriyamu by Williams Sassine. London [etc.]: Heinemann, 1980. African Writers Series 199