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  • Captain Moncrieff; and one Furrajulla, a ci-devant slave from Bonga, Central Africa.

    Three Months in the Soudan 1885

  • "He will go to any means to hang on, even if its throwing youth militia on the streets to create chaos and slow the rebel advance," says Richard Moncrieff, a research analyst with the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg.

    Ivory Coast Army Chief Deserts Gbagbo Peter Wonacott 2011

  • Now, David Coward has a Scott Moncrieff prize to his name, so we think he won't mind a friendly comparison between the two translations.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • Now, David Coward has a Scott Moncrieff prize to his name, so we think he won't mind a friendly comparison between the two translations.

    The Bodice Ripped: Or a comparison of Two Translations of No Tomorrow 2009

  • Barbara Wright (1915 – 2009), two-time winner of the Scott Moncrieff award, translator of Queneau, Sarraute, Tzara, Jarry and others, died in March.

    Deaths in the extended family (pt. 1) 2009

  • In any case, the chief of Clan Skene, Danus George Moncrieff Skene, who is 67 and retired, has no room for "the glands man," as he calls him.

    In Brooklyn, G Marks the Spot for a Bust of Abe Lincoln Barry Newman 2011

  • This book is translated by Linda Coverdale who won the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize and the 1997 and 2008 French-American Foundation Translation Prize.

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

  • Now, David Coward has a Scott Moncrieff prize to his name, so we think he won't mind a friendly comparison between the two translations.

    Translation 2010

  • This book is translated by Linda Coverdale who won the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize and the 1997 and 2008 French-American Foundation Translation Prize.

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

  • Barbara Wright (1915 – 2009), two-time winner of the Scott Moncrieff award, translator of Queneau, Sarraute, Tzara, Jarry and others, died in March.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

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