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Linda Coverdale lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...

, Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d'Encausse after his wife's pen name, and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse....

, Patrick Chamoiseau

Patrick Chamoiseau

Patrick Chamoiseau is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement.-Biography:Chamoiseau was born on December 3, 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where he currently resides. After he studied law in Paris he returned to Martinique inspired by Édouard Glissant to...

, Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé is a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu . Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris,...

, Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq is a French Basque writer.-Biography:Marie Darrieussecq was born on January 3, 1969...

, Jean Echenoz

Jean Echenoz

Jean Echenoz is a French writer.Son of a psychiatrist, Echenoz studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he lives since 1970. He published his first book, Le méridien de Greenwich in 1979...

, Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux is a French writer.She won the Prix Renaudot in 1984 for her book La Place, an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her...

, Sébastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name...

, Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic.-Life:...

, Philippe Labro

Philippe Labro

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, Yann Queffélec

Yann Queffélec

Yann Queffélec is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares, translated into English as The Wedding...

, Jorge Semprún

Jorge Semprún

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, Lyonel Trouillot, Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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, Jean Hartzfeld, and Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

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PUBLICATIONS

"A Tale of Two Martyrs," Tahar Ben Jelloun (Granta, 2011)
Lives Other than My Own, Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2011)
“There Are Things I Want You to Know…” Eva Gabrielsson (Seven Stories Press, 2011)
Lightning, Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2011)
"Fiction in the First Person, or Immoral Writing," Marie Darrieussecq (L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. 50, No. 3, Fall 2010)
A Palace in the Old Village, Tahar Ben Jelloun (Penguin, 2010)
My Life as a Russian Novel, Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2010)
I Am Nujood, Age Ten and Divorced, Nujood Ali (Crown/Random House, 2010)
Running, Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2009)
The Antelope's Strategy, Jean Hatzfeld (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009)
Leaving Tangier, Tahar Ben Jelloun (Penguin, 2009)
You Have Only One Picture Left, Laurent Graff (film script, OuiDO! Entertainment, 2008)
Beyond Suspicion, Tanguy Viel (The New Press, 2008)
Wartime Writings: 1943-1949, Marguerite Duras (The New Press, 2008)
The Children of Heroes, Lyonel Trouillot (The University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
Life Laid Bare, Jean Hatzfeld (Other Press, 2007)
Ravel, Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2007)
A French Life, Jean-Paul Dubois (Knopf, 2007)
In the Name of Honor, Mukhtar Mai (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Freedom, Malika Oufkir (Miramax Books, 2006)
Massacre River, René Philoctète (New Directions, 2005)
A Machete Season, Jean Hatzfeld (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Serpent's Tail, 2005)
The Lecture, Lydie Salvayre (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005)
The Prophecy of the Stones, Flavia Bujor (Miramax Books, 2004)
Happy Days, Laurent Graff (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004)
Making Love, Jean-Philippe Toussaint (The New Press, 2003)
Street of Lost Footsteps, Lyonel Trouillot (The University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
The Absolute Perfection of Crime, Tanguy Viel (The New Press, 2002)
My Forbidden Face, Latifa (Miramax Books, 2001)
Stories, Mohammed Dib & Monique Agénor (The Hudson Review, Autumn 2001)
This Blinding Absence of Light, Tahar Ben Jelloun (The New Press, 2001)
Undercurrents, Marie Darrieussecq (The New Press, 2000)
The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
Speak You Also, Paul Steinberg (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
Mamzelle Dragonfly, Raphaël Confiant (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999)
Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows, Patrick Chamoiseau (The University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
Lila Says, Chimo (Scribner, 1999)
Rider on the Rain, Sébastien Japrisot (The Harvill Press, 1998)
Shadows of a Childhood, Elisabeth Gille (The New Press, 1998)
Black Tunnel White Light, Philippe Labro (Kodansha America, 1997)
Pig Tales, Marie Darrieussecq (The New Press, 1997)
Class Trip, Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1997)
Literature or Life, Jorge Semprun (Viking, 1997)
School Days, Patrick Chamoiseau (The University of Nebraska Press, 1996)
Naming the Jungle, Antoine Volodine (The New Press, 1996)
A Frozen Woman, Annie Ernaux (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995)
What the Night Tells the Day, Hector Bianciotti (The New Press, 1995)
Creole Folktales, Patrick Chamoiseau (The New Press, 1995)
The Traveler’s Tree, Bruno Bontempelli (The New Press, 1994)
A Very Long Engagement, Sébastien Japrisot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
Compulsory Happiness, Norman Manea (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
Le Petit Garçon, Philippe Labro (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992)
To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, Hervé Guibert (Atheneum, 1991)
Out of Reach, Emmanuel Carrère (translation for Macmillan, 1990)
Lion Mountain, Mustapha Tlili (Arcade Publishing/Little, Brown & Company, 1990)
The Children of Segu, Maryse Condé, (Viking Penguin, 1989)
Mortal Embrace: Living With AIDS, Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe (Hill & Wang, 1988)
Sweet Death, Claude Tardat (The Overlook Press, 1987)
The Wedding, Yann Queffélec (Macmillan, 1987)
Once Upon A Time: Visions of Old Japan, Chantal Edel (The Friendly Press, 1986)
The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood, Molyda Szymusiak (Hill & Wang, 1986)
The Grain of the Voice, Roland Barthes (Hill & Wang, 1985)

HONORS

2010 Runner-up Scott Moncrieff Prize: The Strategy of Antelopes (Serpents Tail)
2009 Finalist International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Ravel
2008 French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Ravel (Fiction)
2008 Finalist French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Life Laid Bare (Nonfiction)
2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize (Scott Moncrieff Prize
Scott Moncrieff Prize
The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000 literary prize for French to English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the Translators Association to have "literary merit"...

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2006 Finalist Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: This Blinding Absence of Light
2006 Finalist French-American Foundation Fiction Translation Prize: Massacre River
2005 Finalist French-American Foundation Fiction Translation Prize: Making Love
2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: This Blinding Absence of Light
2004 Finalist PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize: Street of Lost Footsteps
2003 Finalist PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize: This Blinding Absence of Light
1999 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres).

1999 Finalist French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
1997 French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Literature or Life

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