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Her best known work is the 1948 ''With Much Love'', a fictionalized account of her childhood memories. She wrote fifteen novels and several volumes of short stories, most in her native English.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA581&dq=%22julien+green%22+%22anne+green%22&hl=en&ei=iYWtTo2rHuHiiALc2IiwCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22julien%20green%22%20%22anne%20green%22&f=false |title=Encyclopedia of literary translation ... - Google Books |publisher=Books.google.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-22}}</ref> She collaborated with her brother Julien in translating works by other authors, such as [[Charles Péguy]], as well as his own works. |
Her best known work is the 1948 ''With Much Love'', a fictionalized account of her childhood memories. She wrote fifteen novels and several volumes of short stories, most in her native English.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA581&dq=%22julien+green%22+%22anne+green%22&hl=en&ei=iYWtTo2rHuHiiALc2IiwCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22julien%20green%22%20%22anne%20green%22&f=false |title=Encyclopedia of literary translation ... - Google Books |publisher=Books.google.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-22}}</ref> She collaborated with her brother Julien in translating works by other authors, such as [[Charles Péguy]], as well as his own works. |
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Anne Green's daughter is Ann Green, an auditor based at the National Audit Office in London. Ann has followed in her mother's footsteps, establishing the in-house magazine. 'NAO News' was established in 1986 and was renamed 'Green' in 1998 in honour of its founder. |
Anne Green's daughter is Ann Green, an auditor based at the National Audit Office in London. Ann has followed in her mother's footsteps, establishing the in-house magazine. 'NAO News' was established in 1986 and was renamed 'Green' in 1998 in honour of its founder. Ann Green's nephew is the British rapper Professor Green (also known as Stephen Paul Manderson)and is also believed to be the person who decided on the name for the fictional character Claude Greengrass in ITV's long running series 'Heartbeat'. |
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Revision as of 09:13, 16 December 2011
Anne Green (b. 1891, Savannah, Georgia, d. 1979, Paris)[1] was an American writer and translator, the sister of Julien Green.[2] While a child, Green's parents moved to France, where her father, ruined by a financial crisis and poor investments, came to settle. She spent her childhood in Le Havre, before her parents moved to Paris, where her brother Julien was born. She and her brother both participated in World War I, in which she volunteered as an ambulance driver.[3]
Her best known work is the 1948 With Much Love, a fictionalized account of her childhood memories. She wrote fifteen novels and several volumes of short stories, most in her native English.[4] She collaborated with her brother Julien in translating works by other authors, such as Charles Péguy, as well as his own works.
Anne Green's daughter is Ann Green, an auditor based at the National Audit Office in London. Ann has followed in her mother's footsteps, establishing the in-house magazine. 'NAO News' was established in 1986 and was renamed 'Green' in 1998 in honour of its founder. Ann Green's nephew is the British rapper Professor Green (also known as Stephen Paul Manderson)and is also believed to be the person who decided on the name for the fictional character Claude Greengrass in ITV's long running series 'Heartbeat'.
Bibliography
Author
- The Selbys, 1930.
- Reader, I Married Him, 1931.
- Marietta, 1932.
- A Marriage of Convenience, 1933.
- Fools Rush in, 1934.
- That Fellow Perceval, 1935.
- 16 Rue Cortambert, 1937.
- The Delamer Curse, 1940.
- Just before Dawn, 1943.
- With Much Love, Harper & Row (1948) (published as Mes Jours Évanouis, literal translation, My Vanished Days, Plon, Paris) (1951) (translated from the English by Marie Canavaggia)[5]
- La Porte des songes, 1969.
Translator
- A Certain Smile, Francoise Sagan (1956)
- The Green Paradise: Autobiography, Volume 1 (1900-1916), Julien Green. Marion Boyars Publishers (1992), ISBN 0714529559[6]
- Each Man in His Darkness, Julien Green. (reissued 1996) ISBN 0-7043-0064-8
- Bases Verities: Prose and Poetry, Charles Peguy (co-translated with Julien). Pantheon Books (1945)[7]
- Diary, 1928-1957, Julien Green. (selected by Kurt Wolff) (1964)[8]
References
- ^ "Georgia History in Fiction: The Quest for Identity in the Civil War Novels of Julien Green", Michael O'Dwyer, Georgia Historical Society,1998 (p. 578)
- ^ "Julien Green". Kirjasto.sci.fi. 1998-08-13. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ "Papers of Julien Green 1941-1944. (Archival material, 1941)". [WorldCat.org]. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of literary translation ... - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ "Julien Green: religion and sensuality - Anthony H. Newbury - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ "Nonfiction Review: Green Paradise: Autobiography by Julien Green / Author, Julian Green / Author, Anne Green / Translator Marion Boyars Publishers $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7145-2955-4". Publishersweekly.com. 1992-11-30. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ "Bases verities: prose and poetry - Charles Péguy, Julien Green, Anne Green - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ "Diary, 1928-1957. Selected by Kurt ... - Julien Green - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2011-11-22.