Graeme Wilson (translator)


Graeme McDonald Wilson was a British academic and translator. He served in the Fleet Air Arm and, following World War II, joined the Civil Service. He lectured for the British Council, wrote reviews for English literature journals, and wrote radio scripts for the Australian Broadcasting Company. In 1964, he was seconded to the Foreign Service as counsellor and civil air attache at twelve Far Eastern posts. Between 1968 and 1969 he was a Ford Foundation Fellow of the National Translation Center in Austin, Texas. His works include co-translations, with Aiko Itō, of I Am a Cat and Ten Nights of Dreams by Natsume Sōseki.

Translations

Girl in the RainI Am a Cat, by Natsume Sōseki, 1972Ten Nights of Dreams, Hearing Things by Natsume Sōseki The Heredity of Taste by Natsume SōsekiFrom the Morning of the World: Poems from the by Man'yōshūThree Contemporary Japanese Poets: Hitoshi Anzai, Kazuko Shiraishi, Shuntarō Tanikawa Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems, translations of the modern Japanese poetry of Hagiwara Sakutaro
  • ''Tree of Happiness''