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Jonathan Griffin (1906–1990) was a British writer and translator. During the Second World War he served as the director of BBC European Intelligence.

Works

• Glass Houses and Modern War (London: Chatto and Windus, 1938)
• In Earthlight: Selected Poems (London: Menard Press, 1995)

Translations

• Jean Giono, The Horseman on the Roof (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953)
• Nikos Kazantzakis, The Greek Passion (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953)
  • Another edition as Christ Recrucified (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1954)
• Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, vol. 1 (London: Collins, 1955)
• Nikos Kazantzakis, Freedom and Death (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1956)
• Pierre Courthion, Flemish Painting (London: Thames and Hudson, 1958)
• Jean Rostand, Can Man be modified? (London: Secker & Warburg, 1959)
• Henri Queffélec, Frontier of the Unknown (London: Secker & Warburg, 1960)
• Germain Bazin, Baroque & Rococo (London: Thames & Hudson, 1964)
• Suzanne Lilar, Aspects of Love in Western Society (London: Thames & Hudson )
• André Adrien Chastel, The Studios and Styles of the Renaissance: Italy, 1460-1500 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1966)
• Fernando Pessoa, Selected Poems (Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1971)
• Jean-Louis Barrault, Memories for Tomorrow (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974)
• Heinrich Von Kleist, The Prince of Homburg for the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 1976.
• Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography (New York; London: Urizen Books; Distributed by Pluto Press, 1977)

References

1. "Jonathan Griffin". New York Review of Books.
2. "Poetry Magazines - Biographical notes".

• 1906 births
• 1990 deaths