Georgia de Chamberet explained

Georgia de Chamberet is an editor, translator, cultural journalist and former book publisher. She has translated a number of non-fiction books into English by the Dalai Lama, Louis Saha, Gérard Garouste as well as by novelist Olivier Guez.[1] [2]

Biography

Born in Paris, France, her mother was Gael Elton Mayo, the youngest daughter of George Elton Mayo, and her father was French.[3]

From 1988 to 1996, de Chamberet worked as a Senior Editor at Quartet Books publishing works by authors such as Tahar Ben Jelloun, Daniel Pennac, Annie Ernaux, Rachid Mimouni, Elsa Gress and The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys (the pen name of Pierre Ryckmans).[4]

De Chamberet founded BookBlast Ltd in 1997 a London-based writing agency to showcase new or overlooked writers.[5] Early publications included Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain, edited by Onyekachi Wambu and XCiTés: The Flamingo Book of New French Writing.[6] [7] [8] [9] De Chamberet was one of the original founder-members of English PEN’s Writers in Translation committee.[10] The BookBlast 10x10 Tour in association with Waterstones was held in Autumn 2018.[11]

De Chamberet is the literary executor of her godmother, the historian and traveller Lesley Blanch (1904-2007).[12] [13] [14] She edited Blanch's memoirs, On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life, first published in 2015 by Virago, London, and La Table Ronde, Paris in 2018.[15] [16] [17] [18] The title is taken from Blanch's best known book, The Wilder Shores of Love, published in 1954. Chamberet spoke at the Oxford Literature Festival in 2015 with Philip Mansel about her experience of editing the memoir, and referenced a reissued earlier memoir Journey Into the Mind’s Eye.[19] [20] A collection of Blanch's early journalism, biographical essays and travellers’ tales, Far To Go and Many To Love: People and Places was published by Quartet Books in 2017.[21]

De Chamberet wrote a series of articles about French counterculture for : Paris is Burning, Beauty Victims, Paris is Burning ii and Paris is Burning iii.[22] [23] [24] She was a columnist and reviewer for Words Without Borders (2006–2010) and interviewed the travel writer, memoirist, journalist, Duncan Fallowell for Prospect Magazine.[25] [26] [27] [28]

In 2018, de Chamberet was a judge for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, alongside Pete Ayrton, Fadia Faqir and Sophia Vasalou.[29]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2024-01-30 . Georgia de Chamberet at BookBlast Ltd - The Society of Authors . 2024-03-06 . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Georgia de Chamberet . 2024-03-06 . www.shakespeareandcompany.com . en-GB.
  3. Web site: 1992-10-19 . Obituary: Gael Elton Mayo . 2024-03-06 . The Independent . en.
  4. News: 2024-03-06 . Naim Attallah obituary . 2024-03-06 . en . 0140-0460.
  5. Web site: BookBlast Ltd. . 2024-03-06 . firstwriter.com.
  6. Web site: 1999-07-13 . Wednesday Book: No Brie, but lots of ecstasy . 2024-03-07 . The Independent . en.
  7. Web site: XCiTés: The Flamingo Book of Fresh French Writing – HarperCollins Publishers UK . 2024-03-06 . harpercollins.co.uk.
  8. News: Clark . Alex . 2000-03-10 . What they're reading in France . 2024-03-06 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  9. Web site: Gallix . Andrew . 2008-09-12 . georgia de chamberet . 2024-03-06 . ANDREW GALLIX . en.
  10. Web site: Avec l’auteur Olivier Guez – Villa Albertine . 2024-03-06 . en-US.
  11. Web site: 2018-09-06 . Georgia de Chamberet: Independent voices . 2024-03-06 . Bookanista . en-GB.
  12. Web site: 2017-01-30 . My Top 5 travel pieces by Lesley Blanch . 2024-03-06 . Hachette UK . en-US.
  13. News: Fox . Margalit . 2007-05-11 . Lesley Blanch, 102, a Writer and Traveler, Dies . 2024-03-06 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  14. Web site: 2015-01-19 . On the Wilder Shores of Love: a Bohemian Life by Lesley Blanch, review: 'deliciously readable' . 2024-03-06 . The Telegraph . en.
  15. News: Chamberet . Georgia de . 2017-01-24 . Georgia de Chamberet: 'Lesley Blanch never apologised for who she was' . 2024-03-06 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  16. Web site: 2024-03-06 . Richard Davenport-Hines - Always Travel Heavy . 2024-03-06 . Literary Review . en.
  17. Web site: cjschuler . 2017-07-10 . The battle against beige . 2024-03-06 . C. J. Schüler . en.
  18. Web site: 2018-06-27 . Lesley Blanch: folle de Gary et d'Orient . 2024-03-06 . Le Figaro . fr.
  19. Web site: 2015 . Oxford Literary Festival . oxfordliteraryfestival.org.
  20. Web site: 2018-09-01 . "Russian Enough for You Here?": A Review of "Journey Into the Mind’s Eye" by Lesley Blanch . 2024-03-06 . Los Angeles Review of Books.
  21. Web site: 2024-03-06 . Valerie Grove - Queen of the Desert . 2024-03-06 . Literary Review . en.
  22. Web site: 3am REGULARS: PARIS IS BURINING 1: BEAUTY VICTIMS . 2024-03-06 . www.3ammagazine.com.
  23. Web site: Paris is Burning II: Close Encounters of a European Kind – 3:AM Magazine . 2024-03-06 . en-GB.
  24. Web site: Paris is Burning III – 3:AM Magazine . 2024-03-06 . en-GB.
  25. Web site: Walch . Louis . 2008-02-14 . The A to Z of Literary Translation . 2024-03-06 . Words Without Borders . en.
  26. Web site: The Silent Steppe by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov . 2024-03-06 . Words Without Borders . en.
  27. Web site: Georgia de Chamberet . 2024-03-06 . Words Without Borders . en.
  28. Web site: Duncan Fallowell - An Interview . 2024-03-06 . www.duncanfallowell.com.
  29. Web site: Banipal Trust for Arab Literature - The Banipal Translation Prize - The Judges 2018 . 2024-03-06 . www.banipaltrust.org.uk.
  30. Web site: soladmin . 2012-06-01 . FSF Football Writers Awards 2012 . 2024-03-06 . Football Supporters' Association . en.
  31. Web site: Lama . His Holiness The Dalai . Stril-Rever . Sofia . A Call for Revolution by Sofia Stril-Rever, His Holiness The Dalai Lama Review Spirituality & Practice . 2024-03-06 . www.spiritualityandpractice.com . en.
  32. Web site: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez Book review . 2024-03-06 . TLS . en-GB.
  33. Web site: Books of the Year . 2024-03-06 . The White Review . en-US.
  34. Web site: 2022-12-08 . Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022 . 2024-03-06 . Literary Hub . en-US.
  35. Web site: 2021-04-01 . Gérard Garouste is back at Templon with books and a film Paris Diary by Laure . 2024-03-06 . en-US.

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