Alan Sheridan (born 1934) is an English writer and translator.
Born Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith, Sheridan read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before spending 5 years in Paris as English assistant at Lycée Henri IV and Lycée Condorcet. Returning to London, he briefly worked in publishing before becoming a freelance translator. He translated works of fiction, history, philosophy, literary criticism, biography and psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget and many others. He was the first to publish a book in English on Foucault's work and also wrote a biography of André Gide.
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Robert Pinget, Mahu or the Material, 1966
Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh: A Novel, 1968
Philippe Sollers, The Park: A Novel, 1968
Alain Robbe-Grillet, The immortal one. London: Calder & Boyars, 1971
Georges Balandier, Political Anthropology, 1972
Michel Foucault, The birth of the clinic, 1973
Lucien Goldmann, Towards a sociology of the novel. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1974
Michel Foucault, Mental Illness and Psychology. New York: Harper and Row, 1976
Michel Foucault, The archaeology of knowledge, 1976
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1976
Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, 1976
Manuel Castells, The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach. London: Edward Arnold, 1977
Jacques Lacan, The Seminar, Book XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, London: Hogarth, 1976, reprinted by Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
Jacques Lacan, Écrits: A Selection, 1977
Sébastien Japrisot, One Deadly Summer. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. ISBN 0-15-169381-1
Pierre Petitfils, Rimbaud, 1987
Michel Foucault, Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzmann, 1988
Tahar Ben Jelloun, The sand child, 1989
Michel Tournier, Gilles & Jeanne, 1990
Tahar Ben Jelloun, The Sacred Night, 1991
Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Ruler, 1945-1970, 1991. ISBN 0-393-03084-9
Agota Kristof, The Notebook, 1989
Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam, 1998
Vacation, 1972
Time and Place, 2003
Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth (1980)
André Gide: A Life in the Present (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999)
