Patrick
Camiller (b. 1947).
Graduated in philosophy from King’s College, London in 1967, since
when he has worked in publishing and, for the last twenty years, as a
translator into English from a number of European languages.
Published works have been mainly in the field of history and
social/political theory (among others, Popper, Offe, Beck, Safranski,
Fest; Poulantzas, Virilio, Löwy, Amin; Salvadori, Arrighi), but
include novels by Mañuel Vázquez Montalban. In the mid-1990s, he
also began to return to an early interest in Romanian culture and
literature, in which he is now increasingly tending to specialize. A
two-month residence grant from the Romanian Cultural Institute proved
invaluable in the spring/early summer of 2008. Translations include:
Norman Manea, The Black
Envelope [Plicul
negru], New York: Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1995, London: Faber 1996; Mihail Sebastian,Journal,
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000; and Dumitru Ţepeneag, The
Vain Art of Fugue [Zadarnicǎ
e arta fugii], Dalkey
Archive Press, 2007. Currently working on two further translations by
Ţepeneag: Nunţiile
necesare (almost completed
for publication in 2009) and Hotel
Europa.
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