Jonathan Griffin

British writer and translator (born 1906)
Jonathan Griffin
Born1906
Died1990
OccupationWriter, Translator
NationalityBritish
Notable worksGlass Houses and Modern War (1938), In Earthlight: Selected Poems (1995)

Jonathan Griffin (1906–1990) was a British writer and translator. During the Second World War he served as the director of BBC European Intelligence.[1]

Works

  • Glass Houses and Modern War (London: Chatto and Windus, 1938)
  • In Earthlight: Selected Poems (London: Menard Press, 1995)[2]

Translations

  • Jean Giono, The Horseman on the Roof (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953)
  • Nikos Kazantzakis, The Greek Passion (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953)
    • Another edition as Christ Recrucified (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1954)
  • Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, vol. 1 (London: Collins, 1955)
  • Nikos Kazantzakis, Freedom and Death (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1956)
  • Pierre Courthion, Flemish Painting (London: Thames and Hudson, 1958)
  • Jean Rostand, Can Man be modified? (London: Secker & Warburg, 1959)
  • Henri Queffélec, Frontier of the Unknown (London: Secker & Warburg, 1960)
  • Germain Bazin, Baroque & Rococo (London: Thames & Hudson, 1964)
  • Suzanne Lilar, Aspects of Love in Western Society (London: Thames & Hudson [1965])
  • André Adrien Chastel, The Studios and Styles of the Renaissance: Italy, 1460-1500 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1966)
  • Fernando Pessoa, Selected Poems (Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1971)
  • Jean-Louis Barrault, Memories for Tomorrow (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974)
  • Heinrich Von Kleist, The Prince of Homburg for the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 1976.
  • Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography (New York; London: Urizen Books; Distributed by Pluto Press, 1977)

References

  1. ^ "Jonathan Griffin". New York Review of Books.
  2. ^ "Poetry Magazines - Biographical notes".
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