Shoes

PUBLISHERS OF LITERARY FICTION SINCE 1983

Our Authors & Translators

Click on a letter of the alphabet to show a list of people whose last name begins with that letter. Click on the “more” link to see full details.


Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio ( 1863 – 1938), was a novelist, poet, playwright and soldier during World War I. He occupied a...
[ more ]

Barbey D'Aurevilly

Jules Amadee Barbey D'Aurevilly (1808-1889) studied law in Caen in his native Normandy 1829-1833 before going to Paris. He lived...
[ more ]

Grigory Dashewski

Poet, translator from English,
French and German, and Professor of Latin at Moscow University,Grigory Dashevsky lives in Moscow.
[ more ]

Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) novelist, playwright, journalist is mainly remembered for the depiction of Provence in Lettres De Mon Moulin and...
[ more ]

Deborah Dawkin

Deborah Dawkin is one of the foremost translators from Norwegian into English working today. Her translation of Buzz Aldrin: What...
[ more ]

Honore de Balzac

Honore Balzac (1799-1850) studied law but in 1819 he abandons his legal studies and begins writing . He was a...
[ more ]

Remy de Gourmont

Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) came from an aristocratic Normandy family which had fallen on hard times. He abandoned his law...
[ more ]

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker...
[ more ]

Fouque de la Motte

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouque (1777-1843) was from a French Huguenots family which fled to Prussia to escape...
[ more ]

Tessa de Loo

Tessa de Loo was born in Bussum, a small town not far from Amsterdam. She made her début with The...
[ more ]

Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues

Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues was born in Paris in 1909. During the war he retreated to Monaco where in 1943...
[ more ]

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919-2004) was brought up in a wealthy Catholic family and remained true to her faith...
[ more ]

Liane de Pougy

Born Anne-Marie Chassaigne in 1869 near the town of Tours she married Armand Pourpe, a naval officer, after becoming pregnant...
[ more ]

Fernando de Rojas

Fernando de Rojas was born in La Puebla de Montalbán in the early 1470s into a family whose Jewish forebears...
[ more ]

Mario de Sa-Carneiro

Sa-Carneiro (1890-1916) published an extraordinary enigmatic short novel in 1914, translated by Dedalus in 1993 as Lucio's Confession. His short...
[ more ]

Charles de Salis

Translator from Spanish. For Dedalus he has translated Misericordia by Benito Perez Galdos.
[ more ]

Jorge de Sena

Jorge de Sena (1919-78) was a Portuguese poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor. His opposition to the...
[ more ]

Mercedes Deambrosis

Of Spanish and Greek origin, Mercedes Deambrosis is a new and individual voice in French fiction. Milagrosa, her first novel,(Dedalus...
[ more ]

Simon Deefholts

Simon Deefholts has enjoyed a wide-ranging career including teaching, translation, lexicography and finance, and has spent several years living and...
[ more ]

Edgar Degas

Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas(1834-1917)French artist, born in Paris. After studying in Italy he returned to Paris where he was associated...
[ more ]

Jacek Dehnel

Jacek Dehnel (born 1980) is a poet, novelist, painter and translator. In 2005 he was one of the youngest ever...
[ more ]

Ramon del Valle-Inclan

Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1869-1935) was one of the major Spanish writers of his period. His bohemianism and quick wit, and...
[ more ]

Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda was born in 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia. The street has been renamed after her, via Grazia Deledda. She...
[ more ]

Eric Dickens

Eric Dickens (1953-2017) was a literary translator who took an interest in the literature some of the smaller countries of...
[ more ]

Julio Dinis

Júlio Dinis was the pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho. Born in Oporto in 1839, he went on to train...
[ more ]

Denis Dobrovoda

Denis Dobrovoda was born and educated in Bratislava. He went to university in England at Oxford and has a degree...
[ more ]

Christine Donougher

Christine Donougher was born in England in 1954. She read English at Cambridge University and after a career in publishing...
[ more ]

James Doyle

James Doyle is from Ireland and works in publishing.He is one of the editors of The Decadent Handbook
[ more ]

Claudia Durastanti

Claudia Durastanti is a writer and literary translator based in London. Her critically acclaimed debut novel Un giorno verrò a...
[ more ]

Karen Duve

Born in Hamburg in 1961, Karen Duve is one of Germany's leading contemporary writers. She has won eight literary prizes,...
[ more ]