Clive Wake
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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.
Born in Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
, 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.
Works
- (ed. with John ReedJohn O. ReedJohn O. Reed is an anthologist and translator of African literature.With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series...
) A Book of African Verse, London: Heinemann Educational, 1964. African Writers SeriesAfrican Writers SeriesAfrican Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
8. Later edition published (1984) as A new book of African verse. - (tr. with John Reed) Prose and poetry, by Léopold Sédar SenghorLéopold Sédar SenghorLéopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal . Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese...
. 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 SenghorLéopold Sédar SenghorLéopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal . Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese...
. London: Heinemann Educational, 1969. African Writers SeriesAfrican Writers SeriesAfrican Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
71 - (tr.) The Money-Order; with, White Genesis by Sembène Ousmane. London: Heinemann Educational, 1972. African Writers SeriesAfrican Writers SeriesAfrican Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
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, etc.: Heinemann Educational, 1972. African Writers SeriesAfrican Writers SeriesAfrican Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
106. - (tr.) The Wound, by Malick FallMalick FallMalick Fall is a former Senegal international football forward.-Career:Born in Matam, Fall moved to France as a youth and played for several clubs in Ligue 2, including Amiens SC, SC Abbeville and Angers SCO....
. London: Heinemann, 1973. Translated from the French La plaie. - The novels of Pierre LotiPierre LotiPierre Loti was a French novelist and naval officer.-Biography:Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At the age of seventeen he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906...
, The Hague: Mouton, 1974 - (tr. with John Reed) Translations from the night : Selected poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. London: Heinemann. African writers seriesAfrican Writers SeriesAfrican Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
167 - (with Martin Banham) African theatre today, 1976
- (tr.) Xala, by Sembène Ousmane
- (tr.) The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez, by Sony Lab'Ou Tansi. Oxford ; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995. African Writers SeriesAfrican Writers SeriesAfrican Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...