Geoffrey Strachan

Geoffrey Strachan is a noted translator of French and German literature into English. He is best known for his renderings of the novels of French-Russian writer Andreï Makine. In addition, he has also translated works by Yasmina Réza, Nathacha Appanah, Elie Wiesel and Jérôme Ferrari. Uniquely, he has won both the Scott-Moncrieff Prize (for translation from French) and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for translation from German).

Selected translations Andrei Makine A Hero's Daughter A Life's Music Brief Loves That Live Forever Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-bearer Human Love Le Testament Francais Music of a Life Once Upon the River Love Requiem for a Lost Empire The Crime of Olga Arbyelina The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme The Life of an Unknown Man The Woman Who Waited The Archipelago of Another Life My Armenian Friend

Others Elie Wiesel: The Judges Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: Love and Hate Jerome Ferrari: Where I Left My Soul Melita Maschmann: Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self Nathacha Appanah: The Last Brother Yasmina Reza: Adam Haberberg