Jocelyn Godefroi (1880,
Kensington
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– 30 March 1969) was a British translator.
Educated at
Haileybury College Haileybury may refer to:
Australia
* Haileybury (Melbourne), a school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
**Haileybury Rendall School, an offshoot in Berrimah, North Territory, Australia
China
* Haileybury International School, an international ...
and
Trinity College, Oxford
(That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody)
, named_for = The Holy Trinity
, established =
, sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge
, president = Dame Hilary Boulding
, location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH
, coordinates ...
, he worked for the
Lord Chamberlain's Office
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for over four decades. He translated several works of
French literature
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into
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
, notably
Gabriel Chevallier
Gabriel Chevallier (3 May 1895 – 6 April 1969) was a French novelist widely known as the author of the satire ''Clochemerle''.
Biography
Born in Lyon in 1895, Gabriel Chevallier was educated in various schools before entering Lyon École des Be ...
's comic novel ''
Clochemerle
''Clochemerle'', published in the United States as ''The Scandals of Clochemerle'', is a French satirical novel by Gabriel Chevallier (1895–1969) first published in 1934. It centres on personal rivalries and local politics in the fictional ...
'' and
Julien Green
Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (''The Dark Journey'', ''The Closed Garden'', ''Moira'', ''Each Man in His Darkness'', the ''Dixie'' trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiog ...
's journals. All together he translated 18 works in 27 publications in 2 languages and 537 library holdings
WorldCat Identities
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References
*''The Author's and Writer' Who's Who'', 4th ed. 1960
*'The Times Diary', ''The Times
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'', 26 February 1972
External links
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*Translated Penguin Book - at
Penguin First Editions
reference site of early first edition Penguin Books.
French–English translators
1880 births
1969 deaths
20th-century British translators
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
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