Jonathan Griffin

Jonathan Griffin (1906–1990) was a British writer and translator. During the Second World War he served as the director of BBC European Intelligence.

Works

 * Glass Houses and Modern War (London: Chatto and Windus, 1938)
 * In Earthlight: Selected Poems (London: Menard Press, 1995)

Translations

 * Jean Giono, The Horseman on the Roof (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953)
 * Nikos Kazantzakis, The Greek Passion (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953)
 * Another edition as Christ Recrucified (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1954)
 * Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, vol. 1 (London: Collins, 1955)
 * Nikos Kazantzakis, Freedom and Death (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1956)
 * Pierre Courthion, Flemish Painting (London: Thames and Hudson, 1958)
 * Jean Rostand, Can Man be modified? (London: Secker & Warburg, 1959)
 * Henri Queffélec, Frontier of the Unknown (London: Secker & Warburg, 1960)
 * Germain Bazin, Baroque & Rococo (London: Thames & Hudson, 1964)
 * Suzanne Lilar, Aspects of Love in Western Society (London: Thames & Hudson [1965])
 * André Adrien Chastel, The Studios and Styles of the Renaissance: Italy, 1460-1500 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1966)
 * Fernando Pessoa, Selected Poems (Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1971)
 * Jean-Louis Barrault, Memories for Tomorrow (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974)
 * Heinrich Von Kleist, The Prince of Homburg for the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 1976.
 * Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography (New York; London: Urizen Books; Distributed by Pluto Press, 1977)