James Grieve (Australian translator)

James Alexander Grieve was an Australian translator of French literature and an author. His translations have included scientific works, books for children and two volumes of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Grieve's translated second part of Proust's 7-part Remembrance of Things Past is the first completely new English translation since the 1920s. There were six other translators working on the other parts, for this project by Penguin. Grieve's Penguin translation received positive review from Alain de Botton who remarked: "... if one ends up with a favourite ." Grieve is also the author of the language study text Dictionary of Contemporary French Connectors.
Grieve's translations have been illustrated by Petr Herel and Phil Day.
Grieve is the author of three published novels :A Season of Grannies They're Only Human Something in Common Swann's way, by Marcel Proust, New York : New York Review Books, 2023,
Grieve also developed a text, deriving from his set of fiches correctives, which is now available to download as a PDF, entitled and its contents run over 3000 pages.
Grieve taught French language and literature at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Grieve died after a short illness on 15 January 2020, at the age of 85.