Howard Curtis

Howard Curtis (born 1949) is a British translator of French, Italian and Spanish fiction. He has specialized in translating crime fiction.

He was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger award in 2011.^[1]

He won the 2013 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for his translation from Italian of In the Sea there are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda.^[2]

Translations

Translations from French

• Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself In by Georges Simenon. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
• Memoirs from Elsinore by Franz Hellens. Translation of Mémoires d'Elseneur. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
• The Officers' Ward, by Marc Dugain. Translated from Chambre des officiers. 2001.
• Submission: A Novel by Marthe Blau. Translated from Entre ses mains. London: Black Swan, 2004.
• Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo. Translated from Total Khéops. New York: Europa Editions, 2005.
• Chourmo by Jean-Claude Izzo. New York: Europa Editions, 2006.
• The Lost Sailors by Jean-Claude Izzo. Translated from Marins perdus. New York: Europa Editions, 2007.
• Solea by Jean-Claude Izzo. New York: Europa Editions, 2007.
• The Vendetta by Honoré de Balzac. London: Hesperus, 2008.
• Mary of Nazareth: a Novel by Marek Halter. Translated from Marie. New York: Crown Publishers, 2008.
• A Sun for the Dying by Jean-Claude Izzo. Translated from Soleil des mourants. New York: Europa Editions, 2008.
• Zulu by Caryl Férey. New York: Europa Editions, 2010.
• Guys Like Me by Dominique Fabre. New York: New Vessel Press, 2015.

Translations from Italian

• A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio. Translated from Ad occhi chiusi. London: Bitter Lemon, 2006.
• A Private Affair by Beppe Fenoglio. Translated from Una questione privata. London: Hesperus, 2006.
• The Past is a Foreign Country by Gianrico Carofiglio. Translated from Il passato è una terra straniera. London: Old Street, 2007.
• The Turn by Luigi Pirandello. Translated from Il turno. London: Hesperus, 2007.
• The Death of a Mafia Don by Michele Giuttari. London: Abacus, 2009.
• Who is Lou Sciortino by Ottavio Cappellani. Translated from Chi è Lou Sciortino?. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
• A Death in Calabria by Michele Giuttari. London: Little, Brown, 2010.
• In the Sea There are Crocodiles: The Story of Enaiatollah Akbari by Fabio Geda. Oxford: David Fickling Books, 2011.

Translations from Spanish

• Tierra del Fuego by Francisco Coloane. New York: Europa Editions, 2008.
• The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepúlveda. Translated from Sombra de lo que fuimos. New York : Europa Editions, 2011.

References

1. The CWA International Dagger 2011 shortlist
2. English Speaking Union: Howard Curtis wins the 2013 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation

External links

• Q&A with Howard Curtis
• Dan Wickett, Reading the World 2007: E-Panel of Literary Translators, 6 June 2007
• Howard Curtis at Library of Congress Authorities, with 31 catalog records