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South African translator
Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.
Born in
Cape Town , Clive Wake studied at
Cape Town University and
the Sorbonne . He taught at the
University of Rhodesia , and the
University of Kent at Canterbury , where he is Emeritus Professor of French and African Literature.
[1] He served as Lord Mayor of Canterbury for the Liberal Democrats party and was Vice-Chancellor of Chaucer College Canterbury.
Works
(ed. with
John Reed ) A Book of African Verse , London: Heinemann Educational, 1964.
African Writers Series 8. Later edition published (1984) as A New Book of African Verse .
(tr. with John Reed) Prose and Poetry , by
Léopold Sédar Senghor . London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
(ed.) An Anthology of African and Malagasy Poetry in French . London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
(tr. with John Reed) Nocturnes , by
Léopold Sédar Senghor . London: Heinemann Educational, 1969.
African Writers Series 71
(tr.)
The Money-Order with White Genesis by
Sembène Ousmane . London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1972.
African Writers Series 92. (Translation of Vehi ciosane; ou, Blanche-genèse; suivi du Mandat , Paris: Présence Africaine, 1965.)
(ed. and tr. with John Reed) French African Verse , London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1972.
African Writers Series 106.
(tr.) The Wound , by
Malick Fall . London: Heinemann, 1973. Translated from the French La Plaie .
The Novels of
Pierre Loti , The Hague: Mouton, 1974
(tr. with John Reed) Translations from the Night: Selected Poems of
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo . London: Heinemann.
African Writers Series 167
(with Martin Banham) African Theatre Today , 1976
(tr.) Xala , by Sembène Ousmane, 1976
(tr. with John Reed) Wirriyamu by Williams Sassine, 1980
(tr.) The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez , by
Sony Lab'Ou Tansi . Oxford; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995.
African Writers Series
References
^ Sony Lab'Ou Tansi, The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez , 1995, p. 1.
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