David Bellos (born 1945) is a British academic, translator and biographer.
[1] He is the Meredith Howland Pyne professor of French and comparative literature at Princeton University in the United States,[2] and was director of its translation and intercultural communication programme from 2007 to 2019.
[citation needed] Bellos has written literary biographies of Romain Gary and Georges Perec, and has published work on Honoré de Balzac; his The Novel of the Century relates the writing of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
[citation needed] Other works include an introduction to translation studies, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
He has translated much of the work of Perec into English, including the novel Life: A User's Manual.