John H. P. Marks

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John Hugo (Edgar) Puempin Marks (1908–1967) was a British journalist and translator who turned French and Spanish works into English. He was the first to translate works by Céline into English. Marks studied at the Irish College in Gibraltar, the French lycée in Madrid, Aldenham School, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. A fan of bullfighting, he wrote for The Times and the BBC. In the 1930s he co-edited Night and Day with Graham Greene, until a libel action closed the magazine in 1937. He later worked as night editor for United Press International in Lisbon.