Geoffrey Strachan is a noted translator of French and German literature into English.Profile /ref> He is best known for his renderings of the novels of French-Russian writer
Schlegel-Tieck Prize
The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation is a literary translation award given by the Society of Authors in London. Translations from the German original into English are considered for the prize. The value of the prize is £3,000.
(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''
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* Jerome Ferrari: ''Where I Left My Soul''
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