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 and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize.

Selected translations

Andrei Makine

A Hero's Daughter A Life's Music Brief Loves That Live ForeverConfessions of a Lapsed Standard-bearerHuman LoveLe Testament FrancaisMusic of a LifeOnce Upon the River LoveRequiem for a Lost Empire The Crime of Olga ArbyelinaThe Earth and Sky of Jacques DormeThe Life of an Unknown Man The Woman Who WaitedThe Archipelago of Another Life

Others