Frank Davison was a British translator

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

. He is best known for his translation of Alain-Fournier

Alain-Fournier

Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier , a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes , which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of French literature.-Biography:Alain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher...

's classic novel Le Grand Meaulnes

Le Grand Meaulnes

Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his relationship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as Meaulnes searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the...

. This translation, first published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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 in 1959, has remained in print ever since. It is the "classic" translation of the work, praised for its "fine literary English." A review by L.A. Brisson in called Davison’s translation of Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes “reussit a merveille,” a “wonderfully successful.”

Translations

• Le Grand Meaulnes and other books by Henri Alain-Fournier, Frank Davison (Translator)