Location
Chevy Chase, MD
Prizes
*Witter/Binner Foundation Award
Fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell Colony
French Ministry of Culture Award for Translation
Carol Volk
French-English
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
Recent titles:
- 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