Jonathan Griffin

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

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

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 ) 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)