Fred A. Reed
Journalist, author and translator born in the United States
Fred A. Reed | |
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| Born | 1939 (age 84–85) Los Angeles |
| Died | 14 February 2024 Agadir, Morocco |
| Occupation | Journalist, translator, author |
| Genre | Journalism |
Fred A. Reed (born 1939) was a journalist, author and translator born in the United States who has published and translated several books.[1] He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, for his translations of works by Thierry Hentsch and Martine Desjardins, and received six further shortlisted nominations.
He became Muslim in 2002, and died in Agadir/Morocco on February 14, 2024; and is buried there.[2]
Books
- Persian postcards: Iran after Khomemi. Talonbooks. 1994. ISBN 0-88922-443-9
- Salonica terminus:Travels into the Balkan Nightmare Talonbooks, 1996. ISBN 0-88922-368-8
- Anatolia junction: A journey into hidden Turkey. Talonbooks. 1999. ISBN 0-88922-426-9
- Massoumeh Ebtekar and Fred A. Reed Takeover in Tehran: the inside story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy capture Talonbooks. 2000. ISBN 0-88922-443-9
- Shattered images: the rise of militant iconoclasm in Syria. Talonbooks. 2003. ISBN 0-88922-485-4
- Jean-Daniel Lafond, and Fred A. Reed Conversations in Tehran Talonbooks, 2006. ISBN 0-88922-550-8
Translations
- Martine Desjardins, translated from French by Fred A. Reed and David Homel Fairy Ring Talonbooks. 2001
- Martine Desjardins, translated from French by Fred A. Reed and David Homel All that glitters. Talonbooks. 2005.
- Pavlos Matesis, translated from Greek by Fred A. Reed. The Daughter: a novel Arcadia Books. 2002.
References
External links
- Fred A. Reed at IMDb
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Winners of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation
- Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (1987)
- Philip Stratford, Second Chance (1988)
- Wayne Grady, On the Eighth Day (1989)
- Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990)
- Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (1991)
- Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (1992)
- D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three (1993)
- Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers (1994)
- David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (1995)
- Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (1996)
- Howard Scott, The Euguelion (1997)
- Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me (1998)
- Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (1999)
- Robert Majzels, Just Fine (2000)
- Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (2001)
- Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light (2002)
- Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2003)
- Judith Cowan, Mirabel (2004)
- Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (2005)
- Hugh Hazelton, Vetiver (2006)
- Nigel Spencer, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007)
- Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (2008)
- Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (2009)
- Linda Gaboriau, Forests (2010)
- Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2011)
- Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2012)
- Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (2013)
- Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (2014)
- Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (2015)
- Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (2016)
- Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (2017)
- Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (2018)
- Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (2019)
- Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (2020)
- Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (2021)
- Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (2022)
- Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (2023)
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