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Hamish Miles
1894–1937
Best known as a gifted translator of French literature, this British writer also worked as a novelist and literary editor. His career was brief, but he helped bring major continental authors to English-speaking readers in the early 20th century.
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The Oxford Circus: A Novel of Oxford and Youth
by Hamish Miles, Raymond Mortimer
About the author
James Edward "Hamish" Miles was a British writer, translator, and literary editor, born in 1894 and dying in Edinburgh on December 27, 1937. Sources consistently identify him as being especially known for translating modern French literature into English, including books by André Maurois.
Alongside his translation work, he also wrote his own fiction and other books. Library and bibliographic records connect his name with works such as The Oxford Circus and A War Museum, 1914–1918, showing the range of his interests from literary fiction to reflections on history and culture.
Although he died young, at forty-three, Miles left behind a body of work that continued to circulate through libraries and reprints. He is remembered less as a public celebrity than as a sharp literary intermediary: the kind of writer whose skill quietly shaped what English readers were able to discover from abroad.