James Alexander Grieve (14 November 1934 – 15 January 2020) was an Australian translator of French literature and an author.
His translations have included scientific works, books for children and two volumes of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (ANU, 1982 and Penguin, London, 2002).
"[1] Grieve is also the author of the language study text Dictionary of Contemporary French Connectors (Routledge, London, 1996).
Grieve is the author of three published novels (in English): Grieve also developed a text, deriving from his set of fiches correctives, which is now available to download as a PDF, entitled The One-Stop Fiche-Shop and its contents run over 3000 pages.
Grieve taught French language and literature at the Australian National University in Canberra.