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Translations:
I am represented by Zeno Agency for questions concerning translation rights.
- Italian translation by David Mezzacapa: Storia di un Enigma, ISBN 9788833926575, Bollati Boringhieri. Printed book and e-book editions.
I had the honour of receiving an Italian literary prize, the Premio Giovanni Comisso, in 1992.
- German translation by Rolf Herken and Eva Lack: Alan Turing, Enigma, ISBN 3-211-82627-0, Springer Verlag, Wien.
- French translation by N. Zimmermann: Alan Turing ou l'enigme de l'intelligence, ISBN 2-749-92433-2, Michel Lafon, 2015.
- Chinese translation, ISBN 7535768784, from Hunan Science and Technology Press.
- Japanese transation in two volumes, ISBN978-4-326-75053-5
and ISBN978-4-326-75054-2. See this page.
- Polish translation by W. Bartol, ISBN 85-7255-087-5, Proszynski.
- Finnish translation, ISBN 952-5202-14-3, Alan Turing, arvoitus
- Hungarian translation, ISBN 97896340 6011 6, Kódjátszma
Alan Turing élete, Gabo, Budapest.
- There are also Korean and Taiwan editions.
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U P D A T E
The whole of this website serevs an electronic update to the book. It lists my further publications, carries new information on sources, and offers a Scrapbook of comment, illustration and links for browsing.
But the future development of the site is focused on a Book Update section which will bring all of this material into a coherent and readable form, chapter by chapter.
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R E V I E W S
Turing's rehabilitation from over a quarter-century's embarrassed silence was largely the result of Andrew Hodges's superb biography, Alan Turing: The enigma (1983; reissued with a new introduction in 2012). Hodges examined available primary sources and interviewed surviving witnesses to elucidate Turing's multiple dimensions. A mathematician, Hodges ably explained Turing's intellectual accomplishments with insight, and situated them within their wider historical contexts. He also empathetically explored the centrality of Turing's sexual identity...
Michael Saler, in The Times Literary Supplement.
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A R T S and M E D I A
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On 23 July 2014, the Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe) premiered their work, A man from the future, including a narrated text drawn from Alan Turing: the Enigma. This was the final piece in a Late Night Prom in the BBC 2014 series of Promenade Concerts, at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
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Earlier editions:
These editions will be found in libraries and offered for second-hand sale.
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The book first appeared in October/November 1983 as
- UK hardback edition: Alan Turing: the Enigma, Burnett Books with Hutchinson.
- US hardback edition: Alan Turing: the Enigma, Simon & Schuster.
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The original 1983 edition |
It then appeared in paperback editions:
- UK Counterpoint paperback edition: Alan Turing: the Enigma of Intelligence,
Edition without photographs, the text otherwise the same.
- US Touchstone paperback edition Alan Turing: the Enigma
- UK Vintage edition from 1992 to 2012
- US Walker Books edition from 2000 to 2005
- The 2012 Turing centenary editions, from Princeton University Press and Vintage,
soon superseded by the reset 2014 edition.
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The 2012 Centenary edition |
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