Donald Nicholson-Smith

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Donald Nicholson-Smith


Born
Manchester, The United Kingdom

Donald Nicholson-Smith’s translations of noir fiction include Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Three to Kill; Thierry Jonquet’s Mygale (a.k.a. Tarantula); and (with Alyson Waters) Yasmina Khadra’s Cousin K. He has also translated works by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, Raoul Vaneigem, Antonin Artaud, Jean Laplanche, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Guy Debord. For NYRB he has translated Manchette’s Fatale, The Mad and the Bad, Ivory Pearl, and Nada and Jean-Paul Clébert’s Paris Vagabond, as well as the French comics The Green Hand by Nicole Claveloux and Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan Alagbé. Born in Manchester, England, he is a longtime resident of New York City.

Average rating: 3.99 · 31,104 ratings · 2,396 reviews · 40 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Society of the Spectacle

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4.03 avg rating — 22,979 ratings — published 1967 — 34 editions
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Mygale

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3.92 avg rating — 3,714 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions
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Fatale

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3.62 avg rating — 2,755 ratings — published 1977 — 33 editions
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The Production of Space

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4.17 avg rating — 2,224 ratings — published 1991 — 23 editions
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The Revolution of Everyday ...

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4.14 avg rating — 1,553 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions
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The Mad and the Bad

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3.73 avg rating — 1,537 ratings — published 1972 — 13 editions
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Three to Kill

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3.88 avg rating — 1,249 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions
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Nada (New York Review Books...

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3.95 avg rating — 1,147 ratings — published 1972 — 28 editions
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Cousin K

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2.96 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions
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'68

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4.11 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 1991 — 22 editions
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