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Maren Baudet-Lackner

  • Andrésy, France
  • French-English
Prizes

2024 PEN Translates Award for The Aquatics by Osvalde Lewat

2024 Albertine Translation Grant for Massa and Honey by Roukiata Ouedraogo

2023 PEN Presents Winner for The Aquatics by Osvalde Lewat

2023 Albertine Translation Grant for The Aquatics by Osvalde Lewat

Art/Architecture, Audiovisual, Children's Books, Classical, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 13

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming:
  • The Aquatics, Osvalde Lewat, Coffee House Press, 2025
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  • Escape from Siberia, Yoann Barbereau, Hodder, 2022
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  • In the Shadows, Edouard Philippe & Gilles Boyer, Hodder, 2022
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  • The Final Chapter, Jérôme Loubry, Hodder, 2021
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  • The Refuge, Jérôme Loubry, Hodder, 2021
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  • The Insomniac Society, Gabrielle Lévy, Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
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  • The Lies I Never Told You, Valérie Tong Cuong, Hodder, 2020
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  • The Last Laugh of Edouard Bresson, Amélie Antoine, Amazon Crossing, 2018
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  • One Night in November, Amélie Antoine, Amazon Crossing, 2017
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  • Interference, Amélie Antoine, Amazon Crossing, 2016
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Nanette McGuinness

  • Berkeley, CA
  • French-English
Prizes

2020 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Honor Book, Luisa: Now and Then (Life Drawn, 2018)

2019 Stonewall Honor Book: Luisa: Now and Then (Life Drawn, 2018)

Children's Books, Comics, Science
Contact

Total translated works published: 90+

Selection of translated works:

  • Gurvan: A Dream of Earth, Humanoids (forthcoming, 2023)
  • Storyboarding for Wim Wenders: Visions of Wenders, Life Drawn (forthcoming, 2023)
  • Dagfrid, Viking Girl: No More Ear Buns, Arctis (forthcoming, 2023)
  • Smurf Tales #7, Papercutz (forthcoming, 2023)
  • Magical History Tour: 7-12, Papercutz, 2021-22 (#13, forthcoming, 2023)
  • The Sisters Graphic Novels, #3-8, Papercutz, 2017-2022
  • Tiki: A Very Ruff Year, Life Drawn, 2022
  • Alice on the Run: One Child’s Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War, Life Drawn, 2022
  • Makhno: Ukrainian Freedom Fighter, Life Drawn, 2022
  • Chloe #6: Green Thumb, Papercutz, 2022
  • For Justice: The Serge & Beate Klarsfeld Story, Life Drawn, 2021
  • Little Josephine, Life Drawn, 2020
  • Superman Isn’t Jewish, Life Drawn, 2018
  • Luisa: Now and Then, Life Drawn, 2018
  • California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas, First Second Books, 2017
  • Full list of titles available here: https://athenatranslations.nanette.biz/

Isabelle Dupuis

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • English-French
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Political Science
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • Video Studio, Studio Museum in Harlem, 2010
  • “What does Africa name?” Achille Mbembe in Flow, Studio Museum in Harlem, 2008
  • Usefulness, Amri Barak, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008

Allison M. Charette

  • Rochester, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2018- Salt and Vinegar Award, Brine Literary Magazine, (excerpt of Nour, 1947, Raharimanana)

2018- Longlisted for Best Translated Book Award, (Beyond the Rice Fields, Naivo)

2017- Fellowship in Literary Translation, National Endowment for the Arts, (Lalana, Michèle Rakotoson)

2015- PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, (Beyond the Rice Fields, Naivo)

2013- Found in Translation Prize, SAND Journal, (excerpt of Big, Isabelle Rivoal)

Children's Books, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History
Contact

Total translated works published: 20

Selection of translated works:

  • Maiden, Florence Dupré la Tour, Europe Comics, 2020
  • Black Cotton Star, Steve Cuzor and Yves Sente, Pegasus Books, 2020
  • Detection Club, Jean Harambat, Europe Comics, 2020
  • Return to the Enchanted Island, Johary Ravaloson, AmazonCrossing, 2019
  • Dumpster Dog!, Colas Gutman and Marc Boutavant, Enchanted Lion Books, 2019
  • Mia & Co., Vol. 1-3, Vanyda and Nicolas Hitori De, Europe Comics, 2017-2019
  • Beyond the Rice Fields, Naivo, Restless Books, 2017
  • The Wolves of La Louvière, Flore Balthazar, Europe Comics, 2018
  • Operation Copperhead, Jean Harambat, Europe Comics, 2018
  • Return to Erfurt, Olga Tarcali, Centro Primo Levi Editions, 2014

Paulette Boudrot

  • North Falmouth, MA
  • English-French
  • French-English
Prizes

Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Chevalier, 2010

Children's Books, Classical, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 1

Selection of translated works:

  • Boston My Blissful Winter: Memories of the 1980s, Alain Briottet, PRA Publishing, Sept 2020

Rachel Careau

  • Hudson, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship

Fiction, Non-fiction
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Chéri and The End of Chéri, Colette, W. W. Norton, Forthcoming
  • An Approach, Roger Lewinter, BOMB, 2018
  • The Attraction of Things, Roger Lewinter, New Directions, 2016
  • Story of Love in Solitude, Roger Lewinter, New Directions, 2016

Montana Kane

  • Colorado, CO
  • French-English
Prizes

Will Eisner Award, Best U.S. Edition of International Material (Brazen: Rebel Women That Rocked The World, Pénélope Bagieu, First Second, 2018)

Comics
Contact

Total translated works published: 270+

Selection of translated works:

  • The Grande Odalisque, Jerome Mulot, Florent Ruppert, Bastien Vives, Fantagraphics, 2021
  • Chef Yasmina And The Potato Panic, Wauter Mannaert, First Second, 2021
  • Negalyod, Vincent Perriot, Titan Comics, 2021
  • The Witches, Roal Dahl And Pénélope Bagieu, Scholastic, 2020
  • The Seven Lives Of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Multiple Authors, Humanoids, 2020
  • The Golden Age, Moreil And Pedrosa, First Second, 2020
  • Carthago, Bec Christophe Bec And Ennio Bufi, Humanoids, 2020
  • Harmony, Mathieu Reynès, Insight Comics, 2020
  • Phoolan Devi: Rebel Queen, Claire Fauvel, NBM, 2020
  • The Secret Life Of Pets, Titan Comics, 2019
  • Isabellae, Raule And Gabor, Dark Horse Comics, 2019
  • Brazen: Rebel Women That Rocked The World, Pénélope Bagieu, First Second, 2018
  • Hasib And The Queen Of The Serpents, David B., NBM, 2018
  • Portugal, Cyril Pedrosa, NBM, 2017
  • Glenn Gould: A Life Off-Tempo, Sandrine Revel, NBM, 2016

Philippa Wehle

  • French-English
Prizes

Chevalier in the French Order of Arts and Letters

Theater
Contact

Selection of translated works:

Armin Erfani

  • New York NY
  • French-English
Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Theater
Contact

David Wills

  • Providence, RI
  • French-English
Comparative Lit/Criticism, Non-fiction, Philosophy
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Clang, Jacques Derrida, co-translator Geoffrey Bennington, University of Minnesota Press
  • Theory and Practice, Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, 2018
  • On the Commerce of Thinking: of Books and Bookstores, Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham University Press, 2009
  • The Animal That Therefore I Am, Jacques Derrida, Fordham University Press, 2008
  • The Gift of Death & Literature in Secret, Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  • Counterpath, Catherine Malabou and Jacques Derrida, Stanford University Press, 2004.
  • Right of Inspection, Jacques Derrida and Marie-Françoise Plissart, Monacelli Press, 1999
  • Prothèse, David Wills, translated with Catherine Malabou. (2 volumes), Éditions Galilée, 1997- 1998
  • The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, 1995

Jeanne Marie Todd

  • French-English
Prizes

2020- Finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction (Olivier Wieviorka's The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945)

2020- French Voices Award (Rahul Markovits's Staging Civilization: A Transnational History of French Theater in Eighteenth-Century Europe)

2019- Finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction (Hélène Valance’s Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1870–1917)

2018- Finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction (Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg’s Far-Right Politics in Europe)

2017- Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction (Olivier Wieviorka’s The French Resistance.")

History, Non-fiction, Religion
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming:
  • Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies: Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism, by Guillaume Payen, Yale University Press. With co-translator Steven Rendall
  • An Anti-Jewish France? Glimpses of the New Judeophobic Configuration: Anti-Zionism, Pro-Palestinianism, Islamism, by Pierre-André Taguieff, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
  • Staging Civilization: A Transnational History of French Theater in Eighteenth-Century Europe, by Rahul Markovits, University of Virginia Press
  • Published:
  • A Forgotten People of the Forest: The Kuya of Côte d’Ivoire, by Denis Ramseyer, Barbier-Mueller Museum, 2020
  • The Pre-Raphaelites, Aurélie Petiot, Abbeville Press, 2019
  • The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945, Olivier Wieviorka, Columbia University Press, 2019
  • Battlefields, Yan Moran, Abbeville Press, 2018 With co-translator Linda Gardiner
  • Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917, Hélène Valance, Yale University Press, 2018.
  • Zao Wou-Ki, 1935–2017, edited by Françoise Marquet and Yann Hendgen, Abbeville Press, 2018 With co-translator Monique Étienne."
  • Exhibition catalogue
  • Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

Michael Naas

  • Chicago, IL
  • French-English
Non-fiction, Philosophy
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming : Jacques Derrida’s Life Death: Seminar of 1975-1976, University of Chicago Press, 2020
  • Jacques Derrida’s For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy, Fordham University Press, 2014
  • Jacques Derrida’s Athens, Still Remains, Fordham University Press, 2010
  • Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Truth of Democracy, Fordham University Press, 2010

Nicholas Elliott

  • Woodside, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

27thFrench-American Foundation Non-fiction Translation Prize for The Falling Sky by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert (Harvard University Press, translation with Alison Dundy); Finalist for the same prize for Flaubert by Michel Winock

Art/Architecture, Fiction, Non-fiction, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 10

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Duras/Godard Dialogues, The Film Desk
  • Fraud in the Lab, Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis, Harvard University Press, 2019
  • The Hatred of Literature, William Marx, Harvard University Press, 2018
  • The Sea of Caliphsby Christophe Picard. Harvard University Press, 2017.
  • Flaubert by Michel Winock. Harvard University Press, 2016

Amelia Parenteau

  • New Orleans, LA
  • French-English
Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Theater
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Le jour où mon père m’a tué, Charlotte Boimare and Magali Solignat, 2021
  • Lady First, Sedef Ecer, 2019
  • 1789 & 1793, Théâtre du Soleil, 2019
  • e-passeur.com, Sedef Ecer, NoPassport Press, 2019
  • Portrait de Ludmilla en Nina Simone, David Lescot, 2018
  • La Dernière Scène, Alain Foix, The Mercurian, 2016
  • Archipelago, Caridad Svich, 2014
  • Louise, elle est folle, Leslie Kaplan, 2012

Judith Miller

  • New York, Ny
  • French-English
Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Psychology, Religion, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 24

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: And The Whole World Quakes, Guy Régis Junior, CUNY, 2020
  • Forthcoming: The Théâtre du Soleil: The First fifty-five years, Béatrice Picon-Vallin, Routledge, 2020
  • The Restless, Gerty Dambury, The Feminist Press, 2018
  • Seven Plays by Koffi Kwahulé: In and Out of Africa, Michigan University Press 2017

Chantal Bilodeau

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Children's Books, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 24

Selection of translated works:

  • Because They Were Women, Josée Boileau, Second Story Press, 2020
  • The Theatre of Koffi Kwahulé: In and Out of Africa. Ed. Judith Graves Miller., University of Michigan Press, 2017
  • Child Object, Larry Tremblay, Talonbooks, 2014
  • Abby’s Fabulous Season, Alain Bergeron, Second Story Press, 2014
  • Kafka’s Hat, Patrice Martin, Talonbooks, 2013
  • Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre, Larry Tremblay, Talonbooks, 2010.

Jeffrey Zuckerman

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2020- French-American Foundation Translation Prize, finalist, for The Living Days; French Voices Award Grand Prize for Titaua Peu’s Pina

2019- French Voice Award for The Living Days and The Works of Mercy; Hemingway Grant for Silence of the Chagos

2018- BTBA finalist for Volodine's Radiant Terminus; French Voices Award recipient for Now the Night Begins; TA First Translation Prize finalist for Eve Out of her Ruins

2017- CLMP Firecracker Award, winner, for Eve Out of her Ruins; Albertine Prize finalist for Eve Out of her Ruins; BTBA finalist for Eve Out of her Ruins

2016- PEN/Heim translation grant recipient for the short stories of Hervé Guibert

Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone
Contact

Total translated works published: 13

Selection of translated works:

  • Black Village, Lutz Bassmann, Open Letter, 2021
  • On the Back of Our Images II: Diaries, 2005–2014, Luc Dardenne, Featherproof, 2021
  • Night as It Falls, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Faber & Faber, 2021
  • The Complete Stories, Hervé Guibert, Semiotexte, 2020
  • Night as It Falls, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Faber & Faber, 2020
  • The Criminal Child, Jean Genet, New York Review of Book, 2019
  • The Chagos' Silence, Shenaz Patel, Restless Books, 2019
  • The Living Days, Ananda Devi, Les Fugitives, 2019
  • Dusty Pink, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Semiotexte, 2018
  • Interior, Thomas Clerc, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018
  • Now the Night Begins, Alain Guiraudie, Semiotexte, 2018
  • Radiant Terminus, Antoine Volodine, Open Letter Books, 2017
  • Eve Out of her Ruins, Ananda Devi, Deep Vellum, 2016

Joyce Zonana

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2017- PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant

2019- Global Humanities Translation Prize awarded by the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities (Northwestern University)

2015/2016- ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship

Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • The Beast, and Other Tales, Joseph d'Arbaud, Northwestern University Press, 2020
  • Malicroix, Henri Bosco, New York Review Books, 2020,
  • Ce pays qui te ressemble, Tobie Nathan, Seagull Books, 2019/2020

Andrew Zawacki

  • Athens, GA
  • French-English
Prizes

Translation fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

French Voices Award

Translation fellowship, Centre National du Livre

2015-2016- Howard Foundation Fellowship in Poetry

Contemporary, Fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • See About: Bestiary, Sébastien Smirou, La Presse/Fence Books, 2017
  • My Lorenzo, Sébastien Smirou, Burning Deck, 2012

Shena Wilson

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Economy, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: -

Selection of translated works:

  • -

James Wilson

  • London, UK
  • French-English
Fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • To the Sun, Guy de Maupassant, Duchy of Lambeth, 2008
  • The Foreign Sun and the Angelus, Guy de Maupassant, Duchy of Lambet, 2008
  • Maintenant, Arthur Cravan, Dedecus, 2008

Carol Volk

  • Chevy Chase, MD
  • French-English
Prizes

*Witter/Binner Foundation Award

Fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell Colony

French Ministry of Culture Award for Translation

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Creole, Economy, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: over 30

Selection of translated works:

  • Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon, Juliette Volcler, The New Press, 2013
  • Wide Awake, Robert Bober, The New Press, 2012
  • Racism Explained to my Daughter, Tahar Ben Jelloun, The New Press, 1999
  • Childhood, Patrick Chamoiseau, University of Nebraska Press, 1998
  • Ingratitude, Ying Chen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
  • The Stranger Next Door, Amélie Nothomb, Henry Holt & Co., 1997
  • Corruption, Tahar Ben Jelloun, 1995, The New Press
  • The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry, University of Chicago Press, 1995
  • The Failure of Political Islam, Olivier Roy, Harvard University Press, 1994
  • The Taste for Beauty, Eric Rohmer, Cambridge University Press, 1990

Hester Velmans

  • Sheffield, MA
  • French-English
Prizes

2014- NEA Literature Translation Fellow

2001- Vondel Prize for Translation

Children's Books, Fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 18 novels, 5 short stories

Selection of translated works:

  • Court Serpent (The Short Serpent), Bernard du Boucheron, Overlook Press, 2008

Madeleine Velguth

  • Milwaukee, WI
  • French-English
Prizes

1998- French American Foundation Translation Prize for Children of Clay (Queneau)

1992- NEMLA-Peter Lang Book Award for Chêne et Chien (Queneau)

Children's Books, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 11

Selection of translated works:

  • Nihilism and Negritude, Célestin Monga, Harvard University Press, 2016
  • CSA, Confederate States of America: Southern Cross, Messelet, Sekwana Comics, 2013
  • Reborn in America?, Eric Saugera, University of Alabama Press, 2011

Lindsay Turner

  • Greenville, SC
  • French-English
Prizes

2020 - Best Translated Book Award nomination

2017- French Voices

Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: In Defense of Secrets, Anne Dufourmantelle, Fordham University Press, 2021
  • Forthcoming: Common Life, Stéphane Bouquet, Nightboat Books, 2022
  • The Next Loves, Stéphane Bouquet, Nightboat Books, 2019
  • Postcolonial Bergson, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Fordham University Press, 2019
  • Adagio Ma Non Tropo, Les Figues Press, 2018
  • Atopias, Frédéric Neyrat, Fordham University Press, 2017

Eriksen Translations Inc.

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • English-French
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: -

Selection of translated works:

  • -

Alexander C. Totz

  • Hollywood, CA
  • French-English
Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: -

Peter Thompson

  • Pawtucket, RI
  • French-English
Prizes

2013- Hemingway Grant

Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 15

Selection of translated works:

  • And the Spring is Veiled Over, Mohamed Loakira, Dialogos Books, 2018
  • Exile: Women's Turn, Nabile Farès, Dialogos Books, 2017
  • Nose Against the Glass, Abdelkader Djemaï, Dialogos Books, 2015

Sam Taylor

  • Texarkana, TX
  • French-English
Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 50

Selection of translated works:

  • Life, After, Antoine Leiris, Harvill Secker, 2022
  • Civilizations, Laurent Binet, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
  • The Country of Others, Leila Slimani, Penguin, 2021
  • The Invisible Land, Hubert Mingarelli, Granta Books, 2020
  • A Hundred Million Years and a Day, Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Gallic Books, 2020
  • The Mystery of Henri Pick, David Foenkinos, Pushkin Press, 2020
  • In Paris with You, Clémentine Beauvais, Wednesday Books, 2019
  • Don't Let Go, Michel Bussi, World Noir, 2018
  • The Perfect Nanny, Leïla Slimani, Penguin, 2018
  • Four Soldiers, Hubert Mingarelli, The New Press, 2018
  • Hunting the Truth, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018
  • Special Envoy, Jean Echenoz, The New Press, 2017
  • The 7th Function of Language, Laurent Binet, The New Press, 2017
  • Manderley Forever, Tatiana de Rosnay, St Martin's Press, 2017
  • Charlotte, David Foenkinos, Overlook Press, 2016
  • A Meal in Winter, Hubert Mingarelli, The New Press, 2016

Fiona Sze-Lorrain

  • Paris, France
  • English-French
  • French-English
Prizes

2019-2020- Abigail R. Cohen Fellow, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination

2016- shortlisted for BTBA in Poetry

2016- shortlisted for Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2014- longlisted for PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Contemporary, Fiction, Poetry, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 10+

Selection of translated works:

  • The Black Virgin by Greta Knutson, co-translated with Christina Cook, New England Review, 2019
  • The City is a Novel by Alexey Titarenko, with essays by Gabriel Bauret, Sean Corcoran, and Brett Abbott, Damiani, 2015
  • Presque invisible / Almost Invisible by Mark Strand, Vif Éditions, 2012

Sara Sugihara

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Comics, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 1

Selection of translated works:

  • Without Saying Goodbye, Maryam Sachs, Quartet Books, 2009

Molly Stevens

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 100

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: The Art of Natural History: Three Centuries of Illustrating Nature from France's National Natural History Museum, Rizzoli USA
  • Forthcoming: With Giacometti, Yanaihara Isaku, Gagosian Gallery
  • theanyspacewhatever, essays by Nicolas Bourriaud, Hans Ulrich Obrise, et al., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2008
  • Posture and High Heels: Body Double (x) and the Transgression of the Model, Toastink Press, 2011
  • "Ken Price on Paper, " Jean-Pierre Criqui, Matthew Marks Gallery, 2016
  • The End of the Neolithic, Rémi Labrusse, Gagosian Gallery, 2017
  • Sacred Spaces, Guillaume de Laubier, Abrams Books, 2018
  • Essays on François Morellet, forthcoming, Dia Art Foundation
  • Exhibition catalogues:
  • “The Sculptor of Phom Da.” The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2020.
  • Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter. Gagosian Gallery, 2020.
  • French Fashion, Women and the First World War. Bard Graduate Center. 2019.
  • “Renoir’s Last Nudes.” Clark Art Institute, 2018.

Susan Spitzer

  • Northridge, CA
  • French-English
Non-fiction, Philosophy
Contact

Total translated works published: 16

Selection of translated works:

  • The Seminars of Alain Badiou: Lacan, Alain Badiou, Columbia University Press, 2018
  • I Know There Are So Many of You, Alain Badiou, Polity, 2018
  • There's No Such Things as a Sexual Relationship, Alain Badiou, Columbia University Press, 2017
  • The True Life, Alain Badiou, Polity, 2017
  • Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color, Alain Badiou, Polity, 2016
  • What Is To Be Done? A Daialogue on Communism, Capitalism and the Future of Democracy, Alain Badiou and Marcel Gauchet, Polity, 2016
  • In Praise of Mathematics, Alain Badiou and Gilles Haeri, Polity, 2016
  • Heidegger: His Life & His Philosophy, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin, Columbia University Press, 2016
  • Engelmann, Philosophy and The Idea of Communism, Polity, 2015
  • Confrontation, Alain Badiou and Alain Finkielkraut, Polity, 2014
  • Controversies, Alain Badiou and Jean-Claude Milner, Polity, 2014
  • The Incident at Antioch, Alain Badiou, Columbia University Press, 2013
  • Cinema, Alain Badiou, Polity, 2013
  • Plato's Republic, Alain Badiou, Columbia University Press, 2012
  • Five Lessons on Wagner, Alain Badiou, Verso, 2010

William Snow

  • Middleburg, VA
  • French-English
Prizes

Grants from Association Beaumarchais and SACD Translation Fund, 2012-2016.

Playwriting grant from the French Ministry of Culture.

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Fiction, Non-fiction, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Global Diplomacy. An Introduction to Theory and Practice, ed. T. Balzacq et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
  • New Perspectives on the International Order, Bertrand Badie, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
  • Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations, edited by Guillaume Devin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
  • Aurelien Dumont: La Fécondité de l'écart, edited by Pierre Roullier, Ensemble 2e2m, 2018
  • Beauté Congo, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2015
  • Selective Eating, edited by Claude Fischler et al., Odile Jacob, 2015
  • The Age of Albrecht Dûrer, Beaux-Arts de Paris Éditions, 2015
  • Outside, Stefan Cornic, Carlotta Films (Paris), 2014
  • America Latina, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2013
  • Diplomacy of Connivance, Bertrand Badie, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
  • Women Are Heroes, J.R., Editions Alternatives, 2011

Sandra Smith

  • Congers, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2016- Jewish Book Awards: Best Biography/Memoir (But you did not come back)

2006- Independent British Booksellers Book of the Year, PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize, French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction (Suite française)

Classical, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 23

Selection of translated works:

  • Jacques Schiffrin: A Publisher in Exile, Amos Reichman, Columbia University Press, 2019
  • Create Dangerously by Albert Camus, Knopf/Vintage, 2019
  • Alice Asks the Big Questions, by Laurent Gounelle, Little, Brown, 2020
  • Don’t Worry, Life is Easy, Agnès Martin-Lugand, Weinstein Books, 2017
  • A Very French Christmas, (Contributor) “Noël”, Irène Némirovsky, New
  • Vessel Press, 2017
  • But you did not come back, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Grove Atlantic, 2016,
  • The Stranger, Albert Camus, adapted as a graphic novel by Jacques Ferrandez, Pegasus Books, , 2016
  • The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, Liveright/Norton, 2015
  • The Fires of Autumn, Irène Némirovsky, Knopf/Vintage, 2014
  • The Outsider, Albert Camus, Penguin UK, 2012
  • The Wine of Solitude, Irène Némirovsky, Knopf/Vintage, 2011
  • The Misunderstanding, Irène Némirovsky, Knopf/Vintage, 2010
  • Jezebel, Irène Némirovsky, Knopf/Vintage, 2010
  • All Our Worldly Goods, Irène Némirovsky, Knopf/Vintage, 2008
  • Suite française, Irène Némirovsky, Knopf/Vintage, 2006

Heather Simon

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Frightening Fauns! Images of the Faun from Antiquity to Picasso, various contributors, Musée de Lodève
  • An Upright Man: Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007), Valérie Berty
  • Val d'Europe: A City Vision, Maurice Culot and Bertrand Durand-Rival, Marsilio, 2018

Rina Sherman

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Non-fiction, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 4

Selection of translated works:

  • Kaléidoscope, Claudio Colucci
  • Sarah Carrière-Chardon, Ed. Editions Norma
  • Corrections / Harmonisation
  • Architecture principe, Claude Parent, Paul Virilio
  • Collection Frac Centre - Editions HYX, co translated with Gammon Sharpley

Ros Schwartz

  • London, UK
  • French-English
Prizes

Winner of a PEN Translates and a PEN Promotes award, longlisted for the EBRD Translation Prize (About my Mother); Winner of a PEN Translates award (Jefferson); Shortlisted for the Pushkin Prize (Stalin's Meteorologist) French Voices award for Translation as Transhumance and for Tombée des nues by Violaine Bérot.

2017- Recipient of the UK Institute of Translation and Interpreting John Sykes Prize for Excellence

Children's Books, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 100+

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Jefferson, Jean-Claude Mourlevat, Andersen Press, 2020
  • Forthcoming: A Long Way from Douala, Max Lobe, HopeRoad, 2020
  • Selfies, Sylvie Weil, Les Fugitives, 2019
  • The Girl Who Read on the Métro, Christine Féret-Fleury, Mantle/Flatiron, 2019
  • I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman, Vintage 2019 (revised translation)
  • The Room of Wonders, Julien Sandrel, Quercus, 2019
  • Stalin's Meteorologist, Olivier Rolin, Counterpoint Press, 2018
  • Maigret and the Minister, Georges Simenon, Penguin Books, 2018
  • Translation as Transhumance, Mireille Gansel, The Feminist Press, 2017
  • The Reader on the 6.27, Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, Mantle, 2017
  • The Rest of their Lives, JeanPaul Didierlaurent, Mantle, 2017
  • About my Mother, Tahar Ben Jelloun (with Lulu Norman), Telegram, 2016
  • 16 Maigret titles, Georges Simenon, Penguin Books, 2014–2019
  • Seeking an American Publisher for:
  • Tombée des nues by Violaine Bérot

Lenn J Schramm

  • Jerusalem, Israel
  • French-English
Comparative Lit/Criticism, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion
Contact

Total translated works published: 5

Selection of translated works:

  • Memoirs and Diaries, Wilhelm Filderman, edited by Jean Ancel et al., Tel Aviv University and Yad Vashem, 2015
  • Herzl, A New Reading, Georges Weisz, Gefen (Jerusalem), 2013
  • The Sparks of Randomness, vols 1 and 2, Henri Atlan, Stanford University Press, 2011/2012
  • "Without Any Doubt": Gersonides on Method and Knowledge, Sara Klein-Braslavy, Brill, 2011
  • Seeking an American Publisher for:
  • Propagandes et persécutions: La Résistance et le "problème juif, " Renée Poznanski

Marion Schoevaert

  • Jersey City, NJ
  • French-English
Children's Books, Contemporary, Fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: *pas de réponse

Selection of translated works:

  • The Great Black Panther, Pere Castor
  • AWOL (adaptation), Olivier Cadiot, PAJ Publication, 2006
  • WestPier, Bernard-Marie Koltes, (co-translated and directed in 1999)
  • Custom and Etiquette, Jean-Luc Lagarce (co-translated with Andrew Berg)
  • The Interview, Michel Vinaver, 1 Yale Repertory Theater/Yale School of Drama
  • Mishka, Pere Castor, 1994

Cynthia Schoch

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
History, Non-fiction, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 26+

Selection of translated works:

  • The State in North Africa. After the Arab Uprisings, Luis Martinez, Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Is Europe Christian, Olivier Roy, Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Doves among Hawks, Samy Cohen, Oxford University Press, 2019
  • The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944, Jacques Semelin, Oxford University Press, 2019
  • Burying Jihadis. Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity, Riva Kastoryano, Oxford University Press, 2018
  • Yemen and the World: Beyond Insecurity, Laurent Bonnefoy, Oxford University Press, 2018
  • Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State, Olivier Roy, Oxford University Press, 2017
  • Egypt's Revolutions: Politics, Religion and Social Movements, Bernard Rougier and Stéphane Lacroix, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
  • The Pakistan Paradox, Christophe Jaffrelot, Oxford University Press, 2015
  • Resisting Genocide, the Multiple Forms of Rescue, Jacques Semelin, Claire Andrieu, and Sarah Gensburger, Oxford University Press, 2014,
  • The G20: A New Geopolitical Order, Karoline Postel-Vinay, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
  • The Violence of Petro-Dollar Regimes: Algeria, Iraq, and Libya, Luis Martinez, Oxford University Press, 2012
  • Diplomacy of Connivance, Bertrand Badie, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
  • Israel's Asymmetric Wars, Samy Cohen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
  • Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide, Jacques Semelin, Columbia University Press, 2009
  • The Libyan Paradox, Luis Martinez, Oxford University Press, 2007

Marjorie Salvodon

  • Boston, MA
  • French-English
Creole, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • Rosalie l'infâme, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, University of Nebraska Press, 2013
  • Garçon manqué, Nina Bouraoui, University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Lenora Ammon Rousseau

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 20+

Selection of translated works:

  • Lavender: Fragrance of Provence, Hans Silvester, Harry N. Abrams, 2016
  • China, Eric Valli, Harry N. Abrams, 2015
  • Most Beautiful Libraries in the World, Guillaume de Laubier and Jacques Bosser, Harry N. Abrams, 2013
  • Louis Vuitton 150th Anniversary Editions, Harry N. Abrams, 2012
  • Men at Sea, Jean Gaumy, Harry N. Abrams, 2010
  • Afghanistan: The Land that Was, Roland and Sabrina Michaud, Harry N. Abrams, 2009Visions of
  • Nature Photography: Learning from a Master, Giles Martin and Denis Boyard, Harry N. Abrams, 2008
  • Mars, Olivier de Gourac, La Mariniere, 2004

Julie Rose

  • Sydney, Australia
  • English-French
  • French-English
Prizes

2019- Elected Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanites

2018 -Australian Academy of the Humanities

2017 -Medal for Excellence in Translation (Philippe Pacquet, Simon Leys. Navigator Between Worlds)

2016- Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government

Art/Architecture, Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Economy, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 60+

Selection of translated works:

  • Doctor Pascal, Emile Zola, Oxford World's Classics, 2020
  • Diplomacy, Cyril Gély, 2018-2020
  • Simon Leys. Navigator Between Worlds, Philippe Paquet, Black Inc., Ltd., 2017
  • The Method of Equality, Jacques Rancière, Polity Books, 2016
  • Noah's Ark: Essays on Architecture, Hubert Damisch, MIT Press, 2016
  • Earth, Emile Zola, Oxford University Press, 2016
  • The Futurism of the Instant, Paul Virilio, Polity Press, 2013
  • The Greenland Breach, Bernard Besson, Le French Book, 2014
  • Figures of History, Jacques Rancière, Polity Press, 2014
  • Rejoicing, Bruno Latour, Polity Press, 2013
  • The Great Accelerator, Paul Virilio, Polity Press, 2012
  • Politics of Literature, Jacques Rancière, Polity Press, 2011

William Rodarmor

  • Berkeley, CA
  • French-English
Prizes

2017- Northern California Book Awards for The Slow Waltz of Turtles

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Political Science, Science, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 45

Selection of translated works:

  • And Their Children after Them, Nicolas Mathieu, Other Press, 2020
  • Article 353 of the Penal Code, Tanguy Viel, Other Press, 2018
  • Lord of the Swallows, Gérard de Villiers, Vintage, 2016
  • Surgace to Air, Gérard de Villiers, Vintage, 2016
  • The Slow Waltz of Turtles, Katherine Pancol, Penguin, 2016
  • Revenge of the Kremlin, Gérard de Villiers, Vintage, 2015
  • The Last King of the Jews, Jean-Claude Lattès, Open Road, 2014
  • The Madmen of Benghazi, Gérard de Villiers, Vintage, 2014
  • Oh My, Oh No!, Charrier and Domergue, Running Press Kids, 2014
  • Chaos in Kabul, Gérard de Villiers, Vintage, 2014
  • Indiana Teller: Spring Moon, Sophie Audouin, Entangled, 2013

Anthony Roberts

  • Lupiac, France
  • French-English
Prizes

2003- Grand Prix French-American Foundation

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Creole, Economy, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi, Georgetown University Press, 2017
  • Shchukin: Collector of Genius, Natalia Semenova, Yale University Press, 2017
  • A Debt of Gratitude, Pierre Assouline, Editions Plon, 2011
  • Growing Up Palestinian, Laetitia Bucaille, Princeton University Press, 2007
  • Reinventing French Cuisine, Pierre Gagnaire, Abrams, 2007
  • JIHAD, Gilles Kepel, Harvard University Press, 2003
  • Insite Africa, Deidi von Schaewen, Taschen, 2003
  • Ultima Thule- Explorers and Natives in the Polar North, Jean Malaurie, W. W. Norton, 2002
  • The Joy of Art, Serge and Marina Clément, Abrams, 2001

Margaret Rigaud

  • Cambridge, UK
  • English-French
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 10

Selection of translated works:

  • The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation, Antoine Hennion, Routledge, 2016
  • Manet: A Symbolic Revolution, Pierre Bourdieu, Polity, 2017

Tatiana Reznichenko

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • Affect, Actions and Passions in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet, Edingburgh University Press, 2018
  • American Trucks, Ulysse Fréchelin, MB & F M.A.D. Gallery, 2014

Steven Rendall

  • Les Barthes, France
  • French-English
Prizes

2017- James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association

2016- French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Translation Prize

2005- Modern Language Association of America, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize

1999- National Jewish Book Council, Sandra Brand and Arik Weitraub Award

Art/Architecture, Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Economy, Fiction, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 56

Selection of translated works:

  • The Gunzburgs: A Family Biography Lorraine de Meaux. Halban Publishers, 2019
  • Disturbance : Surviving Charlie Hebdo, Philippe Lançon, Europa, 2019
  • Sophocles: A Study of his Theater in its Political and Social Context, Princeton University Press, 2018
  • An Imaginary Racism, Pascal Bruckner, Polity, 2018
  • Montaigne: A Life, Philippe Desan, Princeton University Press, 2017
  • The Wisdom of Money, Pascal Bruckner, Harvard University Press, 2017
  • Éric Rohmer: A Biography, Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, Columbia University Press, 2016
  • The Sociology of Howard S. Becker, Alain Pessin, University of Chicago Press, 2016
  • The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy, Alain Bresson, Princeton University Press, 2015
  • Bonaparte, Patrice Gueniffey, Harvard University Press, 2015
  • Dictionary of Untranslatables, Barbara Cassin, Princeton University Press, 2014
  • Cemetery of Swallows, Mallock, Europa, 2014
  • Autumn, All the Cats Return, Philippe Georget, Europa, 2014

Cecelia Ramsey

  • Nashville, TN
  • French-English
Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Religion
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Animal Atlas, Virginie Aladjidi, Sourcebooks, 2016

Catherine Porter

  • Ithaca, NY
  • French-English
Comparative Lit/Criticism, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 49

Selection of translated works:

  • Zbigniew Brzezinski, Strategist of Empire, Justin Vaisse, Harvard University Press, 2018
  • Facing Gaia, Bruno Latour, Polity, 2017
  • Freud in His Time and Ours, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Harvard University Press, 2016
  • Mysteries and Conspiracies, Luc Boltanski, Polity, 2014
  • The Queer Turn in Feminism, Anne Berger, Fordham University Press, 2014
  • The Foetal Condition, Luc Boltanski, Polity, 2013
  • An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Bruno Latour, Harvard University Press, 2013
  • Love and Justice as Competencies, Luc Boltanski, Polity, 2012
  • The Animal Side, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Fordham University Press, 2011
  • Fighting Theory: In Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle, Avital Ronell, Illinois University Press, 2011

Mark Polizzotti

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2020 - French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation, translation award finalist

2019 - French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation, translation award finalist

2019 - Albertine Prize, translation award finalist2004- French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation translation award finalist

2016 - American Academy of Arts & Letters, Award in Literature

2004- French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation translation award finalist

2003- French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation translation award finalist

1994-1995- National Endowment for the Arts translation grant

1993- French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation translation award finalist

Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 50+

Selection of translated works:

  • Sleep of Memory, Patrick Modiano, Yale University Press, 2018
  • The Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard, Other Press, 2018
  • Such Fine Boys, Patrick Modiano, Yale University Press, 2017
  • The Black Notebook, Patrick Modiano, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
  • Pedigree, Patrick Modiano, Yale University Press, 2015
  • Suspended Sentences, Patrick Modiano, Yale University Press, 2014
  • Syndrome E, Franck Thilliez, Viking Press, 2012
  • Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel, Dalkey Archive Press, 2011
  • Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli, Annie Cohen-Solal, Knopf, 2010
  • The Three Fates, Linda Lê, New Directions, 2010

Nancy Piore

  • Woodstock, NY
  • French-English
Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Gender Studies, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 8

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: The Five Resistance Names of Georges Guingouin, Armand Gatti, NATO
  • Earth Absolute and Other Texts, Lorand Gaspar, Contra Mundum, 2015
  • Selected Prose and Poetry, Jules Supervielle, Black Widow, 2014
  • Furor and Mystery and Other Writings, René Char, Black Widow, 2011
  • Capital of Pain, Paul Eluard, Black Widow, 2006
  • The Tongue Snatchers, Claudine Herrmann, University of Nebraska Press, 1990

Susan Pickford

  • Epinay sur Seine, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • The Civilisation of Smells, Muchembled, Polity, 2020
  • Théâtre Caraïbe le Répertoire, Syto Cavé, Théodora, Coll., Editions de l'Amandier, 2020
  • Théâtre Caraïbe le Répertoire, José Jernidier, Moun Koubari, Coll., Editions de l'Amandier, 2020
  • Secrets of the Studio from Monet to Ai Weiwei, Damian Elwes, Skira, 2018
  • Body.text: A Theory of Empathic Reading, Pierre-Louis Patoine, Brill, 2018
  • Walter Crane's Bluebeard: A Critical Edition, François Fièvre, Universitéde Tours, 2015
  • Anacaona, Jean Métellus, Editions de l'Olivier, 2015
  • The Orphaned Word, in Le Visiteur architecture journal, Karim Basbous, Société Française des Architectes, 2015

Richard Philcox

  • Gordes, France
  • French-English
Prizes

French-American Foundation Translation Award finalist for The Wretched of the Earth

Children's Books, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 21

Selection of translated works:

  • The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé, World Editions, 2020
  • What is Africa to Me: Fragments of a True to Life Autobiography, Maryse Condé, Seagull Books, 2017,
  • The Journey of a Caribbean Writer, Maryse Condé, Seagull Books, 2014
  • Victoire My Mother's Mother, Maryse Condé, Simon and Schuster, 2010
  • Black Skin White Masks, Frantz Fanon, Grove/Atlantic, 2008
  • The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, Grove/Atlantic, 2005
  • Who Slashed Celanire's Throat, Maryse Condé, Atria Books/Simon and Schuster, 2004
  • Tales from the Heart, Maryse Condé, Soho Press, 2001
  • Desirada, Maryse Condé, Soho Press, 2000

Brian Phalen

  • Astoria, NY
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Contemporary, Fiction, Gender Studies, Non-fiction, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 1

Selection of translated works:

  • The Vanished, Lena Mauger, Skyhorse, 2016

Alexis Pernsteiner

  • Marseille, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 8

Selection of translated works:

  • Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution, Pascal Blanchard and Sandrine Lemaire, 2013, Indiana University Press
  • Hotelles: A Novel, Emma Mars, 2014, Harper Collins
  • Elle: Room Two, Emma Mars, 2015, Harper Collins
  • Bad Conscience, Michel Quint, 2015, AmazonCrossing
  • Deadly Aid, Michel Tarou, 2015, AmazonCrossing
  • In the Skin of a Jihadist: A Young Journalist Enters the ISIS Recruitment Network, Anna Erelle, 2015, HarperCollins
  • An Expressive Cuisine, Olivier Nasti, 2017, Menu Fretin
  • The Colonial Legacy in France: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid, Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard, 2017, Indiana University Press

Katherine Payne

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

French Voices Award

Art/Architecture, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 1

Selection of translated works:

  • Power of Gentleness, Anne Dufourmantelle, Fordham University Press, 2018

Clare O’Farrell

  • Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
  • French-English
Non-fiction, Philosophy
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • Foucault at the Movies, Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, Dork Zabunyan, Columbia University Press, 2018
  • "The Crisis of Medicine or the Crisis of Antimedicine?, " co-translation, Michel Foucault, Foucault Studies journal, 2004

Donald Nicholson-Smith

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2017- Finalist, Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry, (In Praise of Defeat)

2014- French-American Foundation Translation Prize- Fiction (The Mad and the Bad)

2010-Runner-Up, French-American Translation Prize—nonfiction (Letters to Madeleine)

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 30+

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: L'Affaire N'Gustro, Jean-Patrick Manchette, NYRB
  • Forthcoming: Titeuf, V.14 and 15, Zep
  • Forthcoming: Morte Saison/Dead Season, Nicole Claveloux, New York Review Comics
  • The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War, Serge Pey, Archipelago, 2020
  • Uncertain Manifesto I, Frédéric Pajak, NYRB, 2019
  • Nada, Jean-Patrick Manchette, NYRB, 2019
  • Seraphin, Philippe Fix, Archipelago/Elsewhere, 2019
  • Letter to My Children and to the Children of the World to Come, Raoul Vaneigem, PM Press, 2018
  • The Green Hand, Nicole Claveloux / Zha, New York Review Comics, 2017
  • Ivory Pearl, Jean-Patrick Manchette, New York Review Books, 2018
  • Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, Yvan Alagbé, New York Review Comics, 2018
  • Paris Vagabond, Jean-Paul Clébert and Patrice Molinard, New York Review Books, 2016
  • In Praise of Defeat: Poems Selected by the Author, Abdellatif Laâbi Archipelago, 2016
  • The Mad and the Bad, ean-Patrick Manchette, New York Review Books, 2014
  • The Temptation of Biology: Freud's Theories of Sexuality, Jean Laplanche, Unconscious in Translation, 2014
  • Brother of the Above, J. B. Pontalis, Psychoanalytic Books, 2013
  • Letters to Madeleine, Guillaume Apollinaire, Seagull Books, 2010
  • A Game of War, Alice Becker-Ho and Guy Debord, Atlas Press, 2007
  • Fifty Drawings to Murder Magic, Antonin Artaud, Seagull Books, 2007

Rita S. Nezami

  • South Beach, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

American Literary Translators Association a Fellowship Award (2005): L'Ecrivain Public/The Public Scribe.

Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Le Mariage de Plaisir, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Northwestern University, 2021
  • Pleasure Marriage, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Northwestern University Press, 2019
  • Writings on the Arab Spring, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Northwestern University Press, 2016

Christopher Brent Murray

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 9 books, many chapters and articles (musicology)

Selection of translated works:

  • The Strange Journey of Mr. Daldry, Marc Levy, Susanna Lea Associates, 2011, Amazon Crossing in 2018
  • All Those Things We Never Said, Marc Levy, McArther and Company, 2010/ Amazon Crossing, 2017
  • Three Days in Nepal, Jean David Blanc, Harper Collins, 2014
  • The Gardener of Versailles, Alain Baraton, Rizzoli, 2014
  • American Lady, Sophie Caroline de Margerie, Viking, 2013
  • Finding You, Marc Levy, Susanna Lea Associates, 2008

Martin Munro

  • Tallahassee, FL
  • French-English
Prizes

2020-21- National Humanities Center Fellow

2019-20- Society for French Studies International Fellowship

2017- French Voices Award

Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 1

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Edouard Glissant's Une nouvelle région du monde, Michaël Ferrier, Liverpool University Press
  • Mémoires d'outre mer, Michaël Ferrier, University of Nebraska Press, 2018
  • Seeking an American publisher for:
  • François portrait d'un absent, Michaël Ferrier
  • Scrabble, Michaël Ferrier

Beatrice Mousli

  • Rochester, NH
  • French-English
Prizes

Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, French Minister of Education (2018)

Classical, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • The Tears, Olivia Rosenthal, Toad Press, 2015
  • We are Not Here to Disappear, Olivia Rosenthal, Seismicity Edition/Otis Books, 2015
  • Westwego, Philippe Soupault, Mindmade Books, 2013

Mike Mitchell

  • Argyll, Scotland
  • French-English
Classical, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 14 from French, 73 from German

Selection of translated works:

  • The Devil's Road, Jean-Pierre Ohl, Dedalus, 2019
  • A Rebel in Gaza, Asmaa AlGhoul & Selim Nassib, Doppelhouse Press, 2018
  • Operation Yellow Star, co-translated with Phyllis Aronhoff, Doppelhouse Press, 2017
  • A Forger's Life, Sarah Kaminsky, Doppelhouse Press, 2016
  • A Dutiful Son, Pascal Bruckner, Dedalus (UK), 2015
  • Sang d'Encre, Stéphanie Hochet, Dedalus (UK), 2015
  • The Lairds of Glenmarkie, Jean-Pierre Ohl, Dedalus (UK), 2012
  • Where Tigers are at Home, Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, Other Press, 2012

Rhoda B Miller

  • Denver, CO
  • French-English
Prizes

Subsidy from the Centre National du Livre

Art/Architecture, Economy, History, Non-fiction, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • Contemporary China: Between Mao and Market, François Godement, Roman and Littlefield, 2016

Catherine D. Miller

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Comparative Lit/Criticism, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy
Contact

Total translated works published: 4

Selection of translated works:

  • The Moroccan Sahara, Ch. Saint Prot, Ed., United Nations, 2016
  • Pax Romana, Benoit Sèverac, Enigma Books, 2010
  • France and the Nazi Threat, J. B. Duroselle, Enigma Books, 2004
  • The Man behind the Rosenbergs, Alexander Feklisov, Enigma Books, 2001
  • Currently seeking a publisher:
  • Lucretius: Archeology of a European Classic, Pierre Vesperini,

Ann Miller

  • Oxford, UK
  • French-English
Comics
Contact

Total translated works published: 3 books, many articles in European Comic Art and 1 article in Yale French Studies

Selection of translated works:

  • The Expanding Art of Comics, Thierry Groensteen, University Press of Mississippi/Jackson, 2017
  • The French Comics Theory Reader, Leuven University Press/Cornell University Press, 2014
  • Comics and Narration, Thierry Groensteen, University Press of Mississippi/Jackson, 2013

Margot Miller

  • Easton, MD
  • English-French
  • French-English
Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Psychology
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • Private Property (co-translated with France Grenaudier-Kijn), Paule Constant, University of Nebraska Press, 2011
  • Ouregano, Paule Constant, Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield, 2005

Nicole Michel-Deshagette

  • New York, NY
  • English-French
  • French-English
Prizes

2017 and 2019 Readers Award for Top Language Service Provider by the New York & New Jersey Law Journals

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Creole, Economy, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Autour du drame nègre, Ernst Louis, C3 Editions, 2017
  • Cocoon Paris Goutte d'Or; a public space sculpture, Kate Brown, Cocoon in collaboration with GFR, 2016
  • Picasso/Picault-- Picault/Picasso, un moment magique à Vallauris 1948-1953, Sylvie Vautier, Pointed Leaf Press, 2016

Tom Mes

  • Poortugaal, The Netherlands
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 23

Selection of translated works:

  • Night and Fog, Sylvie Lindeperg, University of Minnesota Press, 2016
  • Cinema and the Shoah, edited by Jean-Michel Frodon, SUNY Press, 2010

Jeremy Mercer

  • Saint Maime, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Economy, Non-fiction
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Manifesto, Antoine d'Agata, Studio Vortex, 2018
  • Rudi, A Dreamer, edited by Anna-Patricia Kahn, Kehrer, 2017
  • The Saga Le Bars, François Le Bars, Rembobineuse, 2016
  • Telling Time, edited by Antawan Byrd, Kehrer, 2015
  • Abolition, Robert Badinter, Northeastern University Press, 2008

Melanie Mauthner

  • London, UK
  • French-English
Prizes

2016- Our Lady of the Nile shortlisted for International DUBLIN Literary Award

2015- Our Lady of the Nile shortlisted for FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award

2014- Our Lady of the Nile named a Bes Book of 2014 by Publisher's Weekly

Children's Books, Classical, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Poetry, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga, Archipelago Books, 2014
  • Additiona translations:
  • "Fear, " Scholastique Mukasonga, Imagine Africa, Archipelago Books, 2010
  • "Hunger-Iguifou, " Scholastique Mukasonga, The Stinging Fly, 2013
  • "Cattle Praise Song, " Scholastique Mukasonga, The New Yorker, 2018
  • "The Rukarara River, " Scholastique Mukasonga, The White Review, 2018
  • "Beautiful Helena's Misfortune, " Scholastique Mukasonga, The New England Review, 2018

Charlotte Mandell

  • Red Hook, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2017- Compass shortlisted for Man Booker International Prize; Awarded National Translation Award from ALTA: shortlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award; and was the recipient of the 2018 ALTA National Translation Award in Prose

Jean Cocteau longlisted for PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Jean Cocteau won French-American Foundation Translation Prize

2015- Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College

English PEN Translation Grant for Syrian Notebooks

2013- French Voices Award for Excellence in Translation and Publication for The Fata Morgana Books

2010- National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Zone

2009- The Kindly Ones is longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, finalist for French-American Foundation Translation Prize

2007- finalist for French-American Foundation Translation Prize (A Voice from Elsewhere)

2004- finalist for French-American Foundation Translation Prize (The Flesh of Words)

2002- finalist for French-American Foundation Translation Prize (The Book to Come); Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature by the MLA

Art/Architecture, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 48

Selection of translated works:

  • Compass, Mathias Énard, New Directions, 2017
  • The Year of the Drought, Roland Buti, Old Street Publishing, 2017
  • Jean Cocteau, Claude Arnaud, Yale University Press, 2016
  • Coming, Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham University Press, 2016
  • Syrian Notebooks, Jonathan Littell, Verso, 2015
  • Altruism, Matthieu Ricard, Little, Brown & Co., 2015
  • Street of Thieves, Mathias Énard, Open Letter Books, 2014
  • After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes, Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham University Press, 2014
  • The Fata Morgana Books, Jonathan Littell, Two Lines Press, 2013

Galatea Laudouar

  • Soustons, France
  • English-French
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Economy, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 16

Selection of translated works:

  • Vicilization: The Fall, Chris Anton Éditions Crmsector, 2020
  • Marie, Oscar Lalo, Oscar Lalo, 2019
  • The Inkspot Mystery, Imène Mebarki ENAG Editions, 2019
  • Atlantis Twins, A-L Ferrer, PARDO, 2017
  • Avalon, Béatrice Leroy, Bellica Publishing, 2018
  • The Scythian Arrow, Sébastien Morgan, Sébastien Morgan, 2018
  • Silex, Fred Lafortune, JEBCA Editions, 2016
  • Hide & Seek: Paris SXM, Valérie Lieko, Createspace, 2016
  • Kimland, Wonderland, Jean Jacoulet, Createspace, 2014
  • Manual for the Cosmopolitan, Michel Loubry, Éditions YAGO, 2007

J. T. Mahany

  • Fayetteville, AR
  • French-English
Prizes

2017- Albertine Prize, Lily Peter Fellowship in Translation

2016- Miller Williams Award

Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Philosophy
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Eleven Sooty Dreams, Manuela Draeger, Open Letter, 2020
  • Bardo or Not Bardo, Antoine Volodine, Open Letter, 2016
  • Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven, Antoine Volodine, Open Letter, 2015

Marc Lowenthal

  • Cambridge, MA
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 14

Selection of translated works:

  • The Leg of Lamb: Its Life and Works, Benjamin Péret, Wakefield Press, 2011
  • An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Georges Perec, Wakefield Press, 2010
  • The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski, Christian Boltanski, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009
  • I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation, Francis Picabia, MIT Press, 2007
  • Stories and Remarks, Raymond Queneau, University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Sophie Rebecca Lewis

  • London, UK
  • French-English
Prizes

Longlisted for the Booker International Prize 2020 (co-translated with Jennifer Higgins) for Faces on the Tip of My Tongue; shortlisted for the 2018 Republic of Consciousness & Scott Moncrieff prizes for Blue Self Portrait; Commended for the 2017 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Héloïse Is Bald; Finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards 2016 for Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc

Children's Books, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Creole, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Sex and Lies by Leila Slimani, Faber & Faber, 2020
  • Blue Self-Portrait, Noémi Lefebvre, Transit Books, 2018
  • Faces on the Tip of My Tongue, Emmanuelle Pagano, Peirene Press, 2019
  • Héloïse is Bald, Emilie de Turckheim, Jonathan Cape: PRH, 2015
  • Thérèse and Isabelle, Violette Leduc, Feminist Press, 2015

Tess Lewis

  • Bronxville, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2020- finalist for French-American Foundation Translation Prize (My Mother’s Tears) ;

2017- PEN Translation Prize (Angel of Oblivion); nominated for Albertine Prize (Incest), nominated for BTBA (Incest)

2015- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for translation of Ludwig Hohl; PEN UK Translates! Award (Kruso), Austrian Coltural Forum NY Translation Prize (Angel of Oblivion)

2014- Max Geilinger Translation Award (Obscurity), finalist for French-American Foundation Translation Prize (Privy Portrait)

2013- PEN UK Translates! award (Ludwig's Room)

2009- PEN Translation Fund Grand for translation of Alois Hotschnig's short stories; National Endowment of the Arts Translation Fellowship

Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone
Contact

Total translated works published: 7

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Seedtime III, Philippe Jaccottet, Seagull Books
  • My Mother's Tears, Michel Layaz, Seagull Books, 2019
  • The Second Seedtime, Philippe Jaccottet, Seagull Books, 2017
  • Incest, Christine Angot, Archipelago Books, 2017
  • Obscurity, Philippe Jaccottet, Seagull Books, 2015
  • Privy Portrait, Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Seagull Books, 2014
  • Seedtime: Notebooks 1954-79, Seagull Books, 2013

Stephen E. Lewis

  • Steubenville, OH
  • French-English
Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion
Contact

Total translated works published: 8 books, 9 scholarly articles

Selection of translated works:

  • A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment, Jean-Luc Marion, University of Chicago Press, 2021
  • Givenness and Revelation, Jean-Luc Marion, Oxford University Press, 2016
  • Negative Certainties, Jean-Luc Marion, University of Chicago Press, 2015
  • Event and Time, Claude Romano, Fordham University Press, 2013
  • The Reason of the Gift, Jean-Luc Marion, University of Virginia Press, 2011
  • The Erotic Phenomenon, Jean-Luc Marion, University of Chicago Press, 2007
  • Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Fordham University Press, 2003
  • Prolegomena to Charity, Jean-Luc Marion, Fordham University Press, 2002

Gauthier Lesturgie

  • Germany
  • English-French
Art/Architecture, Gender Studies, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 9

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Sowing Somankidi Coura, Raphael Grisey, Archive Books (Berlin)
  • Forthcoming: MAPS, Thomas Hirscchorn, JRP| Ringier (Zurich)

Jonathan Larson

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

Longlisted for Best Translated Book Award 2018 (Nioque of the Early-Spring, Francis Ponge)

Art/Architecture, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • Nioque of the Early-Spring, Francis Ponge, The Song Cave, 2018

Louise Rogers Lalaurie

  • Toulouse, France
  • French-English
Prizes

French Voices Awards: The Explosion of the Radiator Hose, Murder Most Serene

Art/Architecture, Classical, Contemporary, Creole, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 40

Selection of translated works:

  • The Braid, Laetita Colombani, Pan Macmillan/Picador, 2019
  • Casanova and the Faceless Woman, Olivier Barde-Cabuçon, Pushkin/Vertigo, 2019
  • Smoking Kills, Antoine Laurain, Gallic Books, 2018
  • Back Up, Paul Colize, Oneworld/Point Blank, 2018
  • The King of Fools, Frédéric Dard, Pushkin/Vertigo, 2017
  • Murder Most Serene, Gabrielle Wittkop, Wakefield Press, 2016
  • Tregian's Ground, Anne Cuneo, And Other Stories, 2015
  • Forty Days Without Shadow, Olivier Truc, Little, Brown, 2014
  • The President's Hat, Antoine Laurain, Gallic Books, 2013
  • The Explosion of the Radiator Hose, Jean Rolin, Dalkey Archive Press, 2011

Youna Kwak

  • Redlands, CA
  • French-English
Children's Books, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, Gender Studies, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • Daewoo, François Bon, Dialogos Press, 2020
  • Gardeners, Véronique Bizot, Dialogos Press, 2017

Richard Kutner

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2015- translation grant from the Service de la Promotion des Lettres de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium (Fear of Paradise)

2014- Hemingway Grant (Cast Away on the Letter A)

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 9

Selection of translated works:

  • After the Roundup, Joseph Weismann, Indiana University Press, 2017
  • The Great Antonio, Elise Gravel, TOON Books, 2016
  • Oedipus: Trapped by Destiny, Yvan Pommaux, TOON Books, 2016
  • The Wild Piano, Fred, TOON Books, 2015,
  • Fear of Paradise, Vincent Engel, Owl Canyon Press, 2015
  • The Suspended Castle, Fred, TOON Books, 2015
  • Orpheus in the Underworld, Yvan Pommaux, TOON Books, 2015
  • Cast Away on the Letter A, Fred, TOON Books, 2014
  • Theseus and the Minotaur, Yvan Pommaux, TOON Books, 2014

Sherab Chödzin Kohn

  • Boulder, CO
  • French-English
History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 26

Selection of translated works:

  • Les lois naturelles de l'enfant, Céline Alvarez, Shambhala Publications, 2019
  • In Search of Wisdom, Christophe André, Alexandre Jollien, Matthieu Ricard, Sounds True, 2018
  • Samurai Wisdom Tales, Pascal Fauliot, Shambhala Publications, 2017
  • Plea for the Animals, Matthieu Ricard, Shambhala Publications, 2016
  • The Prince and the Zombie, Tenzin Wangmo, Shambhala Publications, 2015
  • True Love, Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala Publications, 2011
  • You Are Here, Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala Publications, 2010
  • Miyamoto Mushashi: His Life and Writings, Kenji Tokitsu, Shambhala Publications, 2006
  • The Very Lowly, Christian Bobin, New Seeds/Shambhala Publications, 2006
  • Between Heaven and Earth, Shi Bo, Shambhala Publications, 2003

Stuart Kendall

  • Maplewood, NJ
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 12

Selection of translated works:

  • The Poetry of Georges Bataille, Georges Bataille, SUNY Press, 2018
  • Phrases: Six Films, Jean-Luc Godard, Contra Mundum Press, 2016
  • Inner Experience, Georges Bataille, SUNY Press, 2014
  • On Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, SUNY Press, 2014
  • Louis XXX, Georges Bataille, Equus Press, 2013
  • Guilty, Georges Bataille, SUNY Press, 2013
  • Correspondence, Guy Debord, Semiotext(e), 2009
  • Love, Poetry, Paul Eluard, Black Widow Press, 2007
  • The Cradle of Humanity, Georges Bataille, Zone Books, 2005
  • Lautréamont and Sade, Maurice Blanchot, Stanford University Press, 2004

Mary Byrd Kelly

  • Lawrence, KS
  • French-English
Comparative Lit/Criticism, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy
Contact

Total translated works published: 3 books, 8 articles

Selection of translated works:

  • Caught on Camera: Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge, Christian Delage, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
  • Preface, Fascism and Communism, Tzvetan Todorov, University of Nebraska Press, 2000
  • Other publications
  • The Indian Summer of Life, Pascal Bruckner, The South Central Review, 2020
  • Rabelaisian Encryptions, Mireille Huchon, Yale French Studies, vol. 134, 2018
  • The Communist Tragedy, Pascal Bruckner, South Central Review volume 31, 2014
  • Interview, Luc Ferry, South Central Review volume 24, 2007
  • André Glucksmann on Pascal Bruckner, South Central Review volume 24, 2007
  • The Ambivalences of Vulgarity, Pascal Bruckner, South Central Review volume 24, 2007
  • The Memory of Some French Texts in Les Bienveillantes: The Explicit and the Implicit, Yale French Studies volume 121, 2012

Andy Kelley

  • Peoria, IL
  • French-English
Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion
Contact

Total translated works published: 3 (1 from German), several articles

Selection of translated works:

  • The Bad Conscience, Vladimir Jankélévitch, University of Chicago Press, 2014
  • Forgiveness, Vladimir Jankélévitch, University of Chicago Press, 2005

Jonathan Kaplansky

  • Montréal, Canada
  • French-English
Prizes

2010- French Voices Grant (Things Seen) ;

Juries: Governor General’s Literary Awards for Translation, French to English, 2003.

John Glassco Translation Prize 2009, 2010, 2018

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 33

Selection of translated works:

  • Ethnopsychiatry, Henri Ellenberger, critical edition by Emmanuel Delille, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020
  • The Cry of Vertières: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti, Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020
  • Sleepless Nights and Days of Glory, Hélène Rioux, Guernica Editions, 2019
  • Raymond Brousseau and Inuit Art: The Remarkable Journey of an Artist and Collector, John Porter, Varia/Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2018
  • Chemin Saint-Paul, Lise Tremblay, Quattro Books, 2018
  • Parentheses, Lise Gauvin, 2017, Ekstasis Editions
  • Date with Destiny, Hélène Rioux, Guernica Editions, 2016
  • Too Much Light for Samuel Gaska, Étienne Beaulieu, Quattro Books, 2016
  • The Girl Before, the Girl After, Louis-Philippe Hébert, Quattro Books, 2014
  • The Legacy of Tiananmen Square, Michel Cormier, Goose Lane Editions, 2013
  • Things Seen, Annie Ernaux, University of Nebraska Press, 2010
  • Wednesday Night at the End of the World, Hélène Rioux, Cormorant Books, 2009
  • Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic, Hervé Dumont, McFarland & Company, 2006

Alice Kaplan

  • New Haven, CT
  • French-English
Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, History, Non-fiction
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Palace of Books, Roger Grenier, University of Chicago Press, 2014
  • A Box of Photographs, Roger Grenier, University of Chicago Press, 2013
  • Madame Proust: A Biography, Evelyne Bloch-Dano, University of Chicago Press, 2007
  • OK, Joe, Louis Guilloux, University of Chicago Press, 2003
  • Piano Music for Four Hands, Roger Grenier, University of Nebraska Press, 2001
  • Another November, Roger Grenier, University of Nebraska Press, 1998

A Kaiser

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2020: Fellow, ATLAS ViceVersa Translation Workshop (Arles, Feb2020)

2010- finalist for the Florence Gould/French-American Foundation Translation Award (A Wall in Palestine),

2010: Finalist: UN St. Jerome Contest (Spanish to English translation)"

Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • A Wall in Palestine, René Backmann, Picador, 2010
  • Roman de Formation et Formation au Roman, Alain Fleischer, Columbia University Press, 2009
  • Fille, Alain Fleischer, Columbia University Press, 2009
  • International Rescue Committee: Health, Anti-Terrorism, Legal, Employment Training, International Rescue Committee, 2008-2009

E. Joe Johnson

  • Decatur, GA
  • French-English
Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 231

Selection of translated works:

  • Lincoln Highway 750, Bernard Chambaz and Barroux, NBM Publishing, 2020
  • Chloe & Cartoon #1: When Chloe First Met Her Cat, Cartoon, Greg Tessier and Amandine, Charmz, 2020.
  • Cat & Cat #1: Girl Meets Cat, Yrgane Ramon, Christophe Cazenove and Hervé Richez, Charmz, 2020.
  • The Châteaux of the Loire, Christophe Cazenove and Philippe Larbier. Charnay-lès-Mâcon, Bamboo, 2019.
  • Amy’s Diary #3: Moving On, Véronique Grisseaux and India Desjardins, Charmz, 2019.
  • The Smurfs #26: Smurf Salad, Peyo, Papercutz, 2019
  • Zombillenium #4: Royal Witchcraft, Arthur de Pins, NBM Publishing, 2019
  • Amy’s Diary #2: The World’s Upside Down, Véronique Grisseaux and India Desjardins, Charmz, 2019
  • The Scarlet Rose #4: You Will Always Be Mine, Patricia Lyfoung, Charmz, 2019
  • The Smurfs #25: The Gambling Smurfs, Peyo, Papercutz, 2019
  • Dance Class 3-in-1 #1, Crip and Béka, Papercutz, 2019
  • Men at Sea, Riff Reb’s, Dead Reckoning, 2019
  • Amy's Diary #1: Space Alien…Almost?, Véronique Grisseaux, Laëtitia Aynié, and India Desjardins, Charmz, 2019

Ann Jefferson

  • Cumnor, Oxford, UK
  • French-English
Prizes

Shortlisted for 28th Annual French-American Foundation Translation Prize

2015- Finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize; longlisted for BTBA

(Winter Mythologies and Abbots, Pierre Michon)

Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 2 books, several short pieces

Selection of translated works:

  • The Sorrow of the Earth, Eric Vuillard, Pushkin Press (UK), 2016
  • Winter Mythologies and Abbots, Pierre Michon, Yale University Press 2014

Adriana Hunter

  • Kent, UK
  • French-English
Prizes

2019- Shortlisted for the Scott-Moncrieff Prize

2013- French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize (Electrico W, Hervé Le Tellier)

2011- Scott-Moncrieff Prize (UK) (Beside the Sea, Véronique Olmi)

Children's Books, Classical, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 90

Selection of translated works:

  • The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris, Marc Petitjean, Other Press, 2020
  • This Little Family, Inès Bayard, Other Press, 2020
  • Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter, Ferri, Orion Children's, 2019
  • All Happy Families, Hervé Le Tellier, Other Press, 2019
  • Bakhita, Véronique Olmi, Other Press, 2019
  • If, Lise Marzouk, Other Press, 2018
  • The Pen and the Brush, Anka Mulhstein, Other Press, 2017
  • The Only Girl in the World, Maude Julien, Little, Brown and Company, 2017
  • Who You Think I Am, Camille Laurens, Other Press, 2017
  • Hitler, My Neighbor, Edgar Feuchtwanger and Bertil Scali, Other Press, 2017
  • Asterix and the Chariot Race, Ferri, Orion Children's, 2017
  • The Passion of Mademoiselle S, Jean-Yves Berthault, Spiegel and Grau, 2016
  • Badawi, Mohed Altrad, Grove Press, 2016
  • The Gardens of Consolation, Parisa Reza, Europa Press, 2016

Christiana Hills

  • Raleigh, NC
  • French-English
Prizes

2017- longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize

2014- French Voices (fall session)

2013- French Voices (fall session)

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • Hunting Party, Agnès Desarthe, Unnamed Press, 2018
  • Recettes pour un ami, Raymond Oliver and Jean Cocteau, 2017, Les Éditions de l'Epure (Bilingual edition)
  • One Hundred Twenty-One Days, Michèle Audin, Deep Vellum, 2016

Alexander Hertich

  • Peoria, IL
  • French-English
Prizes

2015- Residency at La Villa Gillet

2010- Finalist for French-American Foundation Annual Translation Prize for Dying

Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy
Contact

Total translated works published: 6

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: The Firsts: A History of the French Superheroes, Xabi Molia, Dalkey Archive Press
  • The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place, Patrik Ourednik, Dalkey Archive Press, 2020
  • Philosophy and Contemporary Reality: Beyond the Event, Etienne Balibar, Liverpool University Press, 2019
  • The Wheel, Christian Gailly, Dalkey Archive Press, 2015
  • An Unexpected Return, Nicolas Bouyssi, Dalkey Archive Press, 2014
  • A Walk Through the Land of Old Age, Simone de Beauvoir, University of Illinois Press, 2012
  • Dying, René Belletto Dalkey Archive Press, 2010

Jeanine Herman

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

Chevalier in the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2003

Lannan Foundation residency

Villa Gilet residency

Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 10

Selection of translated works:

  • Savage Seasons, Kettly Mars, University of Nebraska Press, 2015
  • The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, 3 volumes, Columbia University Press, 2000-2010
  • Do Not Touch, Eric Laurrent, Dalkey Archive Press, 2009
  • Reading Writing, Julien Gracq, Turtle Point Press, 2006
  • Postproduction, Nicolas Bourriaud, Lukas & Sternberg, 2002

Christine Schwartz Hartley

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 5

Selection of translated works:

  • Venus of Khala Kanti, Angèle Kingué, Bucknell University Press, 2015
  • Commentary (A Tale), Marcelle Sauvageot, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013
  • Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon, Christian Salmon, Harper Design, 2012
  • Mamika: My Mighty Little Grandmother, Sacha Goldberger, Harper Design, 2012
  • African Psycho, Alain Mabanckou, Soft Skull Press, 2007

Sara Hanaburgh

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Economy, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 6

Selection of translated works:

  • "Group Photo by the Riverside, " in Imagine Africa vol 3, Emmanuel Dongala, Archipelago, 2017
  • Kaveena, Boubacar Boris Diop, Indiana University Press, 2016
  • The Fury and Cries of Women, Angèle Rawiri, University of Virginia Press, 2014
  • Congo 50, excerpt and interview, Asimba Bathily, Warscapes, 2012

Jolie Hale

  • Columbia, SC
  • French-English
Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Economy, Fiction, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 6

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: World Book of Horses, Bob Langrish and Jane Roddam
  • McCurry NYC 911, Jean-David Morvan, Séverine Tréfouël, Kim Jung Gi, Dupuis, 2016

Christina M. Gschwandtner

  • Bronx, NY
  • French-English
Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion
Contact

Total translated works published: 6

Selection of translated works:

  • On Descartes' Passive Thought, Jean-Luc Marion, University of Chicago Press, 2018
  • The Rigor of Things, Jean-Luc Marion, Fordham University Press, 2017
  • Believing in Order to See, Jean-Luc Marion, Fordham University Press, 2017

Janice Gross

  • Grinnell, IA
  • French-English
Children's Books, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, Non-fiction, Poetry, Religion, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 1

Selection of translated works:

  • The Last Night of a Damned Soul, Slimate Benaïssa, Grove Press, 2004

G. M. Goshgarian

  • Tours, France
  • French-English
Fiction, History, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 26

Selection of translated works:

  • Secularism and Cosmopolitanism, Etienne Balibar, Columbia University Press, 2018
  • How to be a Marxist in Philosophy, Louis Althusser, Bloomsbury, 2017
  • Philosophy for Non-Philosopher, Louis Althusser, Bloomsbury, 2017
  • Birth of the Intellectuals, Christophe Charles, Polity, 2015
  • Violence and Civility, Etienne Balibar, Columbia University Press, 2015

Roland Glasser

  • London, UK
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Poetry, Religion, Science, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 40

Selection of translated works:

  • Seasons of the Moon, Julien Aranda, AmazonCrossing, 2017
  • How to Live Like Your Cat, Stéphane Garnier, Harper Collins, 2017
  • Dance of the Angels, Robert Morcet, AmazonCrossing, 2015
  • Tram 83, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Deep Vellum, 2015

Jody Gladding

  • East Calais, VT
  • French-English
Prizes

PEN 2020 Translation Prize Finalist (If You Cross the River)

Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 37

Selection of translated works:

  • Occupation Journal by Jean Giono, Archipelago Books, 2020
  • Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun, Getty Publications, 2020
  • Yellow: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau, Princeton University Press, 2019
  • If You Cross the River by Geneviève Damas, Milkweed Editions, 2019
  • Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems, Michèle Métail, New York Review Books, 2017
  • Red: History of Color, Michel Pastoureau, Princeton University Press, 2017
  • Everyone Dies Young, Marc Augé, Columbia University Press, 2016
  • Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts, Roland Barthes, Columbia University Press, 2018
  • Virginia Woolf: A Portrait, Viviane Forrester, Columbia University Press, 2015
  • The Book of Beginnings, François Jullien, Yale University Press, 2015

Daniela Ginsburg

  • Asheville, NC
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 10

Selection of translated works:

  • The Actual and the Rational, University of Chicago Press, 2018
  • Innovating Development Strategies in Africa, Landry Signé, Cambridge University Press, 2017
  • Dada Presentism, Maria Stavrinaki, Stanford University Press, 2016

Edward Gauvin

  • Eugene, OR
  • French-English
Prizes

2010- British Comparative Literature Association John Dryden Translation Prize, 1st place; Centre national du Livre grant

2011- Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, Long Form (A Life on Paper); National Endowment for the Arts grant

2013- British Comparative Literature Association John Dryden Translation Prize, 2nd place; PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant

French Voices Awards and Hemingway grants, multiple years

Children's Books, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone
Contact

Total translated works published: 300+

Selection of translated works:

  • Letter to Survivors, Gébé, New York Review of Books, 2018
  • Best of Enemies V.3, David B., SelfMadeHero/Abrams, 2018
  • Lights of the Amalou, Christophe Gibelin, IDW/Eurocomics, 2018
  • March of the Crabs V.3, Arthur DePins, BOOM! Studios/Archaia, 2018
  • My Beijing, Lerner Graphic Universe, 2018,
  • Little Book of Knowledge: Tattoos, Jerome Pierrat, IDW, 2017
  • Moving the Palace, Charif Majdalani, New Vessel Press, 2017
  • Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome, Serge Brussolo, Melville House, 2016
  • Peplum, Blutch, New York Review of Books, 2016
  • Cathedral of Mist, Paul Willems, Wakefield Press, 2016

Lorna Scott Fox

  • London, UK
  • French-English
Prizes

2015- Honorable Mention (fiction category) French-American Foundation Translation Prize (Teresa My Love)

Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 7

Selection of translated works:

  • Marriage as a Fine Art, Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, Columbia University Press, 2016
  • Teresa My Love, Julie Kristeva, Columbia University Press, 2014
  • Gertrude Stein/Pablo Picasso: Correspondence, edited by Laurence Madeline, Seagull Press, 2008

Clayton Eshelman

  • Ypsilanti, MI
  • French-English
Prizes

2008- Landon Translation Prize

2002- Alfonso X Sabio Award for Excellence in Translation

2001- Landon Translation Prize

1988- National Endowment of the Arts Translation Fellowship

1981- NEA Translation Fellowship

1979- National Book Award

1977- PEN Translation Prize

1967-1969- National Translation Center Grants

Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology
Contact

Total translated works published: 16

Selection of translated works:

  • The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire, Aimé Césaire, Wesleyan University Press, 2017

Brent Hayes Edwards

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2012- PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant (Phantom Africa)

Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 1 book, 15 articles, 2 CD liner notes

Selection of translated works:

  • Phantom Africa, Michel Leiris, Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2017

Deke Dusinberre

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: Dozens

Selection of translated works:

  • Visionary Animal: Rock Art from Southern Africa, Renaud Ego, Wits University Press (SA), 2019
  • Queer Theory: The French Response, Bruno Perreau, 2016, Stanford University Press
  • The Politics of Adoption, Bruno Perreau, 2014, MIT Press
  • The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon, Laure Murat, 2014, University of Chicago Press

Alison Dundy

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2013- French-American Foundation Translation Award in Non-Fiction

Art/Architecture, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 20

Selection of translated works:

  • The Falling Sky, Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, Harvard University Press, 2013
  • Blue, White, Red, Alain Mabanckou, Indiana University Press, 2013
  • Life and a Half, Sony Labou Tansi, Indiana University Press, 2011
  • All the World's Birds, George-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon, Rizzoli, 2008
  • Roman Art from the Louvre, AFA/Hudson Hills Press, 2007
  • At the Court of Burgundy, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005
  • Toulouse-Lautrec, Franck Maubert, Assouline, 2004

John Marson Dunaway

  • Macon, GA
  • French-English
Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Religion
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • The Torture, Vladimir Volkoff, Mercer University Press, 2016
  • Under the Gaze of the Bible, Jean-Louis Chretien, Fordham University Press, 2014
  • The Pope's Guest, Vladimir Volkoff, Mercer University Press, 2013

Christopher Jon Delogu

  • Portland, ME
  • English-French
  • French-English
Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Religion
Contact

Total translated works published: 13 books

Selection of translated works:

  • The Limits of Tolerance: Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism, Denis Lacorne, Columbia University Press, 2019
  • The Devil's Reward, Emmanuelle de Villepin, Other Press, 2018
  • Hannah's Dress, Pascale Hugues, Polity Press (UK), 2017
  • Islam: An American Religion, Nadia Marzouki, 2017, Columbia University Press
  • In Search of the Lost Orient, Olivier Roy, 2017, Columbia University Press
  • La meditation transformative: un guide pratique, Christine Curci, Friends Peace House, 2015
  • L'Asile: comment demander le droit d'asile aux États-Unis, Anna Welch, University of Maine School of Law, 2014
  • The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity, Georges Vigarello, Columbia University Press, 2013

Malcolm DeBevoise

  • New Orleans, LA
  • French-English
Prizes

2015-2016- French-American Foundation/Gould Foundation Non-Fiction Prize

2008-2009- French-American Foundation/Gould Foundation Non-Fiction Prize

Art/Architecture, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Economy, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 40+

Selection of translated works:

  • Good Government, Pierre Rosanvallon, Harvard University Press, 2018
  • Living with Robots, Paul Dumouchel, Harvard University Press, 2017
  • Giving Life , Giving Death, Lucien Scubla, Michigan State University Press, 2016
  • Birth of a Theorem, Cédric Villani, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015
  • Must We Divide History into Periods?, Jacques Le Goff, Columbia University Press, 2015

Marjolijn de Jager

  • Stamford, CT
  • French-English
Prizes

2019-Best Translated Book Award Fiction Finalist for Congo Inc. by In Koli Jean Bofane

Art/Architecture, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Psychology
Contact

Total translated works published: ~60

Selection of translated works:

  • For a Long Time, Afraid of the Night, Yasmine Ghata, Schaffner Press, 2019
  • Congo Inc. Bismarck's Testament, In Koli Jean Bofane, Indiana University Press, 2018
  • The Bone Seekers, Tahar Djaout, Dialogos/Lavender Ink, 2018
  • Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya, Annick Cojean, Grove Press, 2013
  • The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman, Ken Bugul, University of Virginia Press, 2013
  • The Past Ahead, Gilbert Gatore, Indiana University Press, 2012
  • Transmigrational Writings Between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa, Hélène Tissières, CARAF Books, 2008
  • The Last Summer of Reason, Tahar Djaout, Bison Books, 2007
  • The Amputated Memory, Werewere Liking, Feminist Press, 2007
  • Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War, Assia Djebar, Feminist Press, 2005
  • The Beauvoir Sisters: An Intimate Look at How Simone and Helene Influenced Each Other and the World, Claudine Monteil, Seal Press, 2004
  • Verses of Forgiveness, Myriam Antaki, Other Press, 2002
  • The Courtship of Sea Creatures, Jean-Pierre Otte, George Braziller, 2001

Dr. James Davis

  • Decatur, GA
  • French-English
Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Science, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • Maria, My Sister/The Little Alphabet Book of Feminism According to Maria Deraismes, Tristan Bourlard, Equality by Words Press, 2019
  • Climb to the Sky, Suzanne Dracius, University of Virginia Press, 2012

Annette David

  • København S, Denmark
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Exemplary Departures, Gabrielle Wittkop, Wakefield Press, 2015

Susannah Dale

  • Malaga, Spain
  • French-English
Economy, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 2

Selection of translated works:

  • Working Rich, Olivier Godechot, Routledge, 2016
  • Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, edited by Luc Foisneau, Thoemmes Continuum, 2008

Linda Coverdale

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

French-American Foundation Translation Prizes

Scott Moncrieff Prizes

MLA Scaglione Literary Translation Prize

French Voices Awards

Best Translated Book Award - Fiction

Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year

Contemporary, Creole, Fiction, Francophone
Contact

Total translated works published: 84

Selection of translated works:

  • The Punishment, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Yale University Press, 2020
  • Slave Old Man, Patrick Chamoiseau, New Press, 2018
  • Maigret Goes to School, Simenon, Penguin Modern Classics, 2017
  • "Julie's Life, " Emmanuel Carrère, Granta, 2016
  • The Emperor, C’est Moi, Hugo Horiot, Seven Stories Press, 2015
  • 1914, Jean Echenoz, New Press, 2014
  • Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tesson, Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013
  • Lives Other than My Own, Emmanuel Carrère, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2011
  • The Antelope's Strategy, Jean Hatzfeld, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009
  • Wartime Writings: 1943-1949, Marguerite Duras, New Press, 2008

Dawn M. Cornelio

  • Guelph, ON, Canada
  • French-English
Fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 7

Selection of translated works:

  • Not a Clue, Chloé Delaume, University of Nebraska Press, 2018
  • Pink Jacket and Black Bra, Rafaele Germain, McArthur and Co (Canada), 2010
  • Black Alley, Mauricio Segura, Biblioasis (Canada), 2010
  • Breakfast with Cora, Cora Tsouflidou, McArthur and Co (Canada), 2010
  • Gin & Tonic and Cucumber, Rafaele Germain, McArthur and Co (Canada), 2009
  • Trans-Canadian Sketchbook, Olivier Barrot, McArthur and Co (Canada), 2009
  • The Inkwell's Monologue, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Editions VVV Editions (Canada), 2005
  • A Matter of Blue, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Boa Editions, 2005

Georgina Collins

  • Warwickshire, UK
  • French-English
Prizes

2013- Joint PEN Award for Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus

Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • In Paris: 20 French Women on Their Secrets to Style - Love, and Life, Jeanne Damas and Lauren Bastide, Penguin Random House, 2018
  • "Alpine, " in Alpine: The Quest of Absolute Agility, Monica Sabolo, Flammarion, 2018
  • "Teibashin, " short story in Wasafiri- International Contemporary Writing, Felwine Sarr, Routledge, 2016
  • “Poetry by Mame Seck Mbacké.” Modern Poetry in Translation: One Thousand Suns. 2, 2016
  • All This Has Nothing to Do with Me, Monica Sabolo, Picado Macmillan, 2015
  • "We Are Not Swallows, " in Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus, edited by Layla Al-Zubaidi et al, IB Tauris, 2013
  • The Other Half of History: An Anthology of Francophone African Women's Poetry in Translation, Heaventree, 2007

Peter J. Collier

  • Cambridge, UK
  • English-French
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Fiction, Non-fiction, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Classification Struggles, Pierre Bourdieu, Polity Press
  • The Fugitive, V.5 of In Search of Lost Time, Penguin, 2002
  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes, and Other Stories, Honoré de Balzac, Oxford University Press, 2012
  • The Passion for Music, Antoine Hennion, Ashgate, 2015
  • Manet: A Symbolic Revolution, Pierre Bourdieu, Polity Press, 2017

Keith Cohen

  • Washington, DC
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Children's Books, Classical, Comics, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • A History of Virility, edited by Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, and Georges Vigarello, Columbia University Press, 2016
  • The Laugh of the Medusa, Hélène Cixous, University of Chicago Press, 1976
  • The Third Body, Hélène Cixous, Northwestern University Press, 1999

Chris Clarke

  • Princeton, NJ
  • French-English
Prizes

French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, 2019

Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 6

Selection of translated works:

  • Mansour's Eyes, Ryad Girod, Transit Books, 2020
  • Imaginary Lives, Marcel Schwob, Wakefield Press, 2018
  • Dictionary of Gestures: Expressive Comportments…, François Caradec, MIT Press, 2018
  • Mademoiselle Bambu, Pierre MacOrlan, Wakefield Press, 2017

Mary Anne Caws

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 31

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: French Prose Poems, Ed. with Michel Delville, NYReviewBooks, 2022
  • Forthcoming: Alice Paalen Rahon (poets series), NYReview Books, 2021
  • Earth Absolute & Other Texts, Lorand Gaspar, Contramundum, 2015
  • Essential Poems and Other Writings of Pierre Reverdy (editor, co-translator), Pierre Reverdy, Black Widow Books, 2013
  • Self-Shadowing Prey (edited and translated), Ghérasim Luca, Contramundum, 2013
  • Furor and Mystery and Other Texts, René Char, Black Widow Books, 2010
  • Essential Poems & Writings of Robert Desnos (edited and translated), Robert Desnos, Black Widow Books, 2007
  • Capital of Pain (co-edited and co-translated), Paul Eluard, Black Widow Books, 2006
  • Poems of André Breton (co-edited and co-translated), André Breton, Black Widow Press, 2005
  • L'Homme approximatif and Other Texts, Tristan Tzara, Black Widow Press, 2004
  • Ostinato, Louis-René des Forêts, University of Nebraska Press, 2001
  • Mallarmé in Prose(co-translator and editor), Mallarmé, New Directions, 2001
  • Break of Day, André Breton, University of Nebraska Press, 1999
  • Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Texts (ed. and tr. Mary Ann Caws), New Directions, 2018

Hélène Cardona

  • Santa Monica, CA
  • English-French
  • French-English
Prizes

Hemingway Grant

Naji Naaman Literary Prize

Julie Suk Honor

Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book

International Book Award in Poetry

Best Book Award in Poetry from American Book Fest

Readers’ Favorite Book Award in Poetry

Children's Books, Classical, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Poetry, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 4

Selection of translated works:

  • Beyond Elsewhere, Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, White Pine Press, 2016

Louis Cancelmi

  • Nyack, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2014- French Voices Award (Bon rétablissement, Marie-Sabine Roger)

Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 3

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Conjunctions ; Exégèse des lieux communs, Léon Bloy, Wise Blood Books.
  • Archipel et Nord, Claude Simon, Conjunctions, 2017
  • La chevelure de Bérénice, Claude Simon, New England Review, 2008

Christine Buckley

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Gender Studies, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology
Contact

Total translated works published: 5

Selection of translated works:

  • New York Kaleidoscope, Valentine Goby, Lunch Ticket, 2015
  • Hanoi, Silences, Valentine Gopby, Asymptote Literary Journal, 2014
  • Bébé Gourmet: 100 French-Inspired Baby Food Recipes for Raising an Adventurous Eater, Jenny Carenco, Workman Publishing/The Experiment, 2013

Saskia Browner

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Gender Studies, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • Governance by Numbers, Alain Supiot, Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2017
  • Dialogues between music and the visual arts, Philippe Junod, Reaktion Books, 2017
  • Regimes of Historicity, François Hartog, Columbia University Press, 2015
  • The Spirit of Philadelphia, Alain Supiot, Verso Books, 2012
  • The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology, Fernando Vidal, University of Chicago Press, 2011

Jesse Browner

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Classical, Contemporary, Fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 20

Selection of translated works:

  • Monsieur le Commandant, Romain Slocombe, Gallic Books (UK), 2013
  • The Bad Life, Frédéric Mitterand, Soft Skull Press, 2010
  • Happiness, Matthieu Ricard, Little, Brown and Company, 2006

Andrew Brown

  • Cambridge, UK
  • French-English
Prizes

French Voices Award

Art/Architecture, Classical, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 77

Selection of translated works:

  • Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide, Frédéric Lenoir, Melville House, 2015
  • Gnarr!, Jon Gnarr, Melville House, 2014
  • Gods, Emmanuel Schwartz et al, American Federation of Arts, 2014

Pascale-Anne Brault

  • Chicago, IL
  • French-English
Prizes

2015- French Voices Award Grand Prize (Nostalgia: When Are We Ever Home?)

2014: Chevalier dans l’Ordre du Mérite

2005: Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques

Contemporary, Fiction, Francophone, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 13

Selection of translated works:

  • Life Death, Jacques Derrida University of Chicago Press, 2020
  • Nostalgia: When Are We Ever Home?, Barbara Cassin, Fordham University Press, 2016
  • For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy, Jacques Derrida, Fordham University Press, 2014
  • The Truth of Democracy, Fordham University Press, 2010
  • Athens Still Remains, Jacques Derrida, Fordham University Press, 2010
  • Noli Me Tangere: on the Raising of the Body, Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham University Press, 2008
  • Learning to Live Finally, Jacques Derrida, Melville Press, 2007
  • Rogues, Jacques Derrida, Stanford University Press, 2005
  • The Work of Mourning, Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, 2003

Robert Bononno

  • New York, NY
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Science, Sociology/Anthropology
Contact

Total translated works published: 28

Selection of translated works:

  • From Montaigne to Montaigne, Claude-Lévi-Strauss, University of Minnesota Press, 2019
  • Expectation, Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham University Press, 2017
  • Autopsy of a Father, Pascale Kramer, Bellevue Literary Press, 2017
  • Marxist Thought and the City, University of Minnesota Press, 2016
  • Language, Madness and Desire, Michel Foucault, University of Minnesota Books, 2015
  • A Roll of the Dice, Stéphanie Mallarmé, Wave Books, 2015
  • Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, Henri Lefebvre, University of Minnesota Press, 2014
  • Ghost Image, Hervé Guibert, University of Chicago Press, 2014
  • Considerations on the Death of a Dog, Turtle Point Press, 2013
  • Speech Begins after Death, Michel Foucault and Claude Bonnefoy, University of Minnesota Press, 2013
  • Cosmopolitics, 2 volumes, Isabelle Stengers, University of Minnesota Press
  • 2010/2011

David Bellos

  • Princeton, NJ
  • French-English
Prizes

2005- Man Booker International Translator's Award

1988- IBM-France Translation Prize

Contemporary, Fiction
Contact

Total translated works published: 35+

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: Anti-Semitism Revisited: How the Jews Made Sense of Hatred, Delphine Horvilleur, MacLehose Press (UK), 2021
  • Forthcoming: Que faire des cons? Maxime Rovère, Profile Books (UK)
  • Bird in a Cage, Frédéric Dard, Pushkin, 2017
  • The Pitards, Georges Simenon, Penguin, 2016
  • Twilight of the Eastern Gods, Ismail Kadare, Grove Press, 2014
  • Portrait of a Man, Georges Perec, University of Chicago Press, 2014
  • Dear Reader, Paul Fournel, Pushkin, 2014
  • On Leave, Daniel Anselme, Faber & Faber, 2014
  • I Remember, Georges Perec (editor, introduction), Godine, 2014
  • Pietr the Latvian, Georges Simenon, Penguin, 2013
  • The Art and Craft of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, Georges Perec, Verso USA, 2011
  • Hocus Bogus, Romain Gary, Yale University Press, 2010
  • Thoughts of Sorts, Georges Perec, Godine, 2009

Daniel Levin Becker

  • Paris, France
  • French-English
Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Selection of translated works:

  • All That is Evident is Suspect, Oulipo, McSweeney's, 2018
  • Minute-Operas, Frédéric Forte, Burning Deck, 2015
  • La Boutique Obscure, Georges Perec, Melville House, 2013

Albert James Arnold

  • Staunton, VA
  • English-French
  • French-English
Prizes

Hemingway Grant (The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire)

Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Creole, Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 16

Selection of translated works:

  • Complete Poetry, co-translated with Clayton Eshleman, Aimé Césaire, Wesleyan University Press, 2017
  • Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Aimé Césaire, Wesleyan University Press, 2013
  • Solar Throat Slashed, Aimé Césaire, Wesleyan University Press, 2011

Alison Anderson

  • Buchillon, Switzerland
  • French-English
Art/Architecture, Comparative Lit/Criticism, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Theater
Contact

Total translated works published: 75

Selection of translated works:

  • Forthcoming: The Fabulous Journey of King Zibeline, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Europa Editions
  • A Strange Country, Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, 2020
  • Just After the Wave, Sandrine Collette, Europa Editions, 2020
  • Exposed, Jean-Philippe Blondel, New Vessel Press, 2019
  • The Cracks in our Armor, Anna Gavalda, Europa Editions, 2019
  • Hear our Defeats, Laurent Gaudé, Europa Editions, 2018
  • Strike Your Heart, Amélie Nothomb, Europa Editions, 2018

Mitchell Abidor

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • French-English
Prizes

2014- Hemingway Grant

Fiction, Francophone, History, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact

Total translated works published: 11

Selection of translated works:

  • Notebooks, 1936-1947 (with Richard Greeman), Victor Serge, NYRB Classics, 2019
  • The Anarchist Encyclopedia, various authors, AK Press, 2019
  • Down with the Law, various authors, AK Press, 2019
  • May Made Me, AK Press/ Pluto Press, 2018
  • The Permanent Guillotine, various authors, PM Press, 2018
  • A Raskolnikoff, Emmanuel Bove, Red Dust, 2016
  • Death to Bourgeois Society, various authors, PM Press, 2016
  • Anarchists Never Surrender, Victor Serge, PM Press, 2015
  • Correspondence, LF Celine, Kilmog (New Zealand), 2015
  • Voices of the Paris Commune, various authors, PM Press, 2015
  • A Socialist History of the French Revolution, Jean Jaures, Pluto Press, 2015
  • The Great Anger, various authors, MIA Press
  • Communards, various authors, MIA Press, 2010

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