Howard Curtis

Translator from French, Italian and Spanish
Translator
Available for:
Lecturing and teaching, Mentoring, Translation, Workshops

I have been translating professionally since 1986 and have worked for a wide variety of publishers in the UK and the USA, including Penguin Books, MacLehose Press, Pushkin Press, Bitter Lemon Press, Little Brown UK, New York Review Books, Europa Editions, HarperVia and Farrar Straus & Giroux. I have over 130 translations to my creditit. This is a selection from the past ten years:

The Threads of the Heart by Carole Martinez 2013

Ten by Andrej Longo: Harvill Secker 2013 (shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)

Betrayal by Giorgio Scerbanenco 2014 (US title: Traitors to All)

The Parrots by Filippo Bologna 2013

The Silence of the Wave by Gianrico Carofiglio 2013

Saving Mozart by Raphaël Jerusalmy 2013

The Castle of Whispers by Carole Martinez 2014

Game for Five by Marco Malvaldi 2014

Avenue of the Giants by Marc Dugain 2014

The Art of Killing Well by Marco Malvaldi 2014

Invisible Love by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2014

Three Card Monte by Marco Malvaldi 2014

Guys Like Me by Dominique Fabre 2015 (awarded a French Voices Award by the French Embassy in the United States)

The African Equation by Yasmina Khadra 2015

The Cellars of the Majestic by Georges Simenon 2015

The Judge’s House by Georges Simenon 2015

Night Prayers by Santiago Gamboa 2016

A Fine Line by Gianrico Carofiglio 2016

The Angels Die by Yasmina Khadra 2016

The Penalty Area by Alain Gillot 2016

Madame Maigret’s Friend by Georges Simenon 2016

Maigret’s Memoirs by Georges Simenon 2016

The Carousel of Desire by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2016 (co-translated with Katherine Gregor)

The Snow was Dirty by Georges Simenon 2016

33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara 2016

The Principle by Jérôme Ferrari 2017 (co-winner of the Translation Prize in Fiction of the French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation)

Maigret’s Mistake by Georges Simenon 2017

Maigret and the Dead Girl by Georges Simenon 2017

Maigret and the Headless Corpse by Georges Simenon 2017

Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa 2017

Maigret Travels by Georges Simenon 2018

The Krull House by Georges Simenon 2018

The Cold Summer by Gianrico Carofiglio 2018

Maigret and the Lazy Burglar by Georges Simenon 2018

Maigret and the Tramp by Georges Simenon 2018

Soul of the Border by Matteo Righetto 2018

Maigret Defends Himself by Georges Simenon 2019

Maigret Hesitates by Georges Simenon 2019

Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos 2019

The Measure of a Man by Marco Malvaldi 2019 (co-translated with Katherine Gregor)

Maigret and the Loner by Georges Simenon: Penguin Books (UK) 2019

The Last Homeland by Matteo Righetto 2020

The Man from London by Georges Simenon 2020

The Measure of Time by Gianrico Carofiglio 2021

Three O’Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio 2021

The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon 2021

Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich 2021

The Hatter’s Ghosts by Georges Simenon 2022

Nothing is Lost by Cloë Mehdi 2023

A Private Affair by Beppe Fenoglio 2023 

Foul Deeds and Fine Dying by Marco Malvaldi 2023