Alan Sheridan

Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith (1934 – 17 August 2015) was an English author and translator.

Life Sheridan studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before spending 5 years in Paris as English assistant at Lycée Henri IV and Lycée Condorcet. Returning to London, he briefly worked in publishing before becoming a freelance translator. He translated works of fiction, history, philosophy, literary criticism, biography and psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget and many others. He was the first to publish a book in English on Foucault's work and also wrote a biography of André Gide.

Sheridan occasionally contributed to the London Review of Books in the 1980s.

Works Translations (partial list) Robert Pinget, Mahu or the Material, 1966 Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh: A Novel, 1968 Philippe Sollers, The Park: A Novel, 1968 Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Immortal One. London: Calder & Boyars, 1971 Georges Balandier, Political Anthropology, 1972 Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic, 1973 Lucien Goldmann, Towards a Sociology of the Novel. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1974 Michel Foucault, Mental Illness and Psychology. New York: Harper and Row, 1976 Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1976 Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1976 Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, 1976 Manuel Castells, The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach. London: Edward Arnold, 1977 Jacques Lacan, The Seminar, Book XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, London: Hogarth, 1976, reprinted by Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993. Jacques Lacan, Écrits: A Selection, 1977 Sébastien Japrisot, One Deadly Summer. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Pierre Petitfils, Rimbaud, 1987 Michel Foucault, Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzmann, 1988 Tahar Ben Jelloun, The Sand Child, 1989 Michel Tournier, Gilles & Jeanne, 1990 Tahar Ben Jelloun, The Sacred Night, 1991 Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Ruler, 1945-1970, 1991. Agota Kristof, The Notebook, 1989 Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam, 1998

Novels Vacation, 1972 Time and Place, 2003

Other Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth (1980) André Gide: A Life in the Present (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999)