Other works include an introduction to
translation studies, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and The Meaning of Everything (2011)[3] and Who Owns This Sentence. A History of Copyrights and Wrongs, written with Alexandre Montagu and published in 2024.
He has translated much of the work of Perec into English, including the novel Life: A User's Manual.
He won the first
Man Booker International Prize for translation in 2005 for his translations of works by Albanian author
Ismail Kadare, despite not speaking Albanian. His translations were done from previous French translations.[4]
He is the father of writer and broadcaster
Alex Bellos.[5]
Maxime Rovere, How To Deal With Idiorts (and stop being one yourself), 2021 (UK)
Biographies
Georges Perec. A Life in Words, 1993. (
Prix Goncourt de la biographie). French edition, 1994. Japanese edition, 2014. Hebrew edition, 2016. New edition in French, 2022; German translation, 2023; Turkish and Chinese translations in progress.
Romain Gary. A Tall Story, Harvill Secker, November 2010
Other books
Balzac Criticism in France, 1850–1900. The Making of a Reputation. Oxford, 1976
La Cousine Bette. A Critical Guide. London, 1981
Old Goriot (Landmarks of World Literature). Cambridge, 1987. Hebrew translation, Tek Aviv, 1990.
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. London and New York, 2011. Paperback edition, 2012. French translation by Daniel Loayza as Le poisson & le bananier, Flammarion, 2012, republished in 2017 as La Traduction dans tous ses états. Spanish translation by Vicente Campos, as Un Pez en la higuera. Ariel, 2012. German translation by Silvia Morawetz as Was macht der Fisch in meinem Ohr?, Eichborn, 2013. Russian translation by Natalia Shahova, Azbuka, 2019. Traditional Chinese translation, Rye Field, Taipei, 2019. Also translated into Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese and
Persian.
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables. London and New York, 2017. Korean edition, 2018. Japanese edition, 2018. Chinese edition, 2019
References
^Bellos, David (1945-....) (in French). Catalogue général. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Accessed April 2024.