Donald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and freelance editor, interested in literature, art, psychoanalysis, social criticism, theory, history, crime fiction, and cinema.[1][2] Born in Manchester, England, he was an early translator of Situationist material into English.[3] He joined the English section of the Situationist International in 1965 and was expelled in December 1967.[3][4] He lives in New York City.[1]
Translations
edit- Nicole Claveloux, The Green Hand and Other Stories, New York Review Books (2017)
- Abdellatif Laabi, In Praise of Defeat, Archipelago Books, 2016. (shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize)
- Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Money, sex and power: on a sham biography of Guy Debord, cipM, 2016.
- Jean-Paul Clébert, Paris Vagabond, New York Review Books, 2016.
- Jean-Patrick Manchette, The Mad and the Bad, New York Review Books, 2014.
- _____. Fatale, New York Review Books, 2011.
- Guy Debord and Alice Becker-Ho, A Game of War, Atlas Press, 2007.
- Antonin Artaud. 50 Drawings to Murder Magic, Seagull Books, 2008.
- Guy Debord. The Society of the Spectacle, Zone, 1994.
- _____. A Sick Planet, Seagull Books, 2008.
- Anselm Jappe. Guy Debord, University of California Press, 1999.
- Thierry Jonquet. Mygale, City Lights, 2003.
- _____. Tarantula, Serpent's Tail, 2005.
- Laplanche & Pontalis. The Language of Psychoanalysis, Norton, 1974.
- Henri Lefebvre. The Production of Space, Blackwell, 1991.
- Jean-Patrick Manchette. Three to Kill, City Lights, 2002.
- Paco Ignacio Taibo II. 68, Seven Stories, 2004.
- Raoul Vaneigem. The Revolution of Everyday Life, Rebel Press, 2003.
- _____. A Cavalier History of Surrealism, AK Press, 1999.
Articles
edit- T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith (Winter 1997). "Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International". October. Retrieved 12 April 2008. [1] Also published at pp. 467–488 of book Tom McDonough (2004) (Editor) Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents. The MIT Press (April 1, 2004) 514 pages ISBN 0-262-63300-0 ISBN 978-0262633000
- (2004) Black glove/white glove: revisiting Mexico's 1968
Notes
edit- ^ a b Bio at PEN American Center Archived October 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bio at opendemocracy.net Archived February 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Donald Nicholson-Smith at The Library at nothingness.org
- ^ Bopsecrets.org