Haakon Chevalier (1901–1985)
Auteur de Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Haakon Chevalier
Oeuvres associées
Pour la révolution africaine : Ecrits politiques (1964) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 272 exemplaires
Abstract painting; fifty years of accomplishment, from Kandinsky to the present (1962) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 57 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Chevalier, Haakon Maurice
- Date de naissance
- 1901-09-10
- Date de décès
- 1985-07-04
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Lakewood, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Paris, France
- Lieux de résidence
- Berkeley, California, USA
Paris, France - Professions
- professor of French literature
translator
writer
novelist
memoirist - Relations
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert (friend)
- Organisations
- University of California, Berkeley
- Courte biographie
- Haakon Chevalier was born in Lakewood Township, New Jersey to Therese (Roggen) and Emile Chevalier, of Norwegian and French descent. He became a translator and professor of French literature at the University of California-Berkeley. After working as a translator for the French government at the first meeting of the United Nations in 1945, he was asked by the U.S. War Department to serve as an interpreter at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. He was later responsible, with Leon Dostert, for the introduction of simultaneous interpretation at the UN. Chevalier was a close friend of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Their relationship led to Chevalier being called before the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities, after which he lost his job at UC Berkeley in 1950. He moved to Paris, where he continued to work as a translator of authors such as André Malraux and Salvador Dali, and also wrote his own fiction and nonfiction works. In 1965, he published Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship.
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 59
- Popularité
- #280,813
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 4
- Langues
- 1