June 08, 2017

6:00PM-9:00PM

Since 1986, the French-American Foundation, with the longstanding support of the Florence Gould Foundation, has awarded annual translation prizes for the best translation from French to English in fiction and nonfiction. The Translation Prize has established itself as a valuable element of the intellectual and cultural exchange between France and the United States, promoting French literature in the United States and providing translators and their craft greater visibility among publishers and readers.

Join us as we honor the best French-to-English translations published in 2016.

Keynote Address by Lydia Davis, 2016-2017 French-American Foundation Translator Laureate

FICTION FINALISTS

Sam Taylor
The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal // Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Read an Interview with Sam Taylor

Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger // Dorothy, A Publishing Project

Donald Nicholson-Smith
Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clébert // New York Review Books

Chris Clarke
In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano // New York Review Books

Lazer Lederhendler
The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux // Biblioasis International

NONFICTION FINALISTS

Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell
Jean Cocteau: A Life by Claude Arnaud // Yale University Press

Read an interview about Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell

Nicholas Elliott
Flaubert by Michel Winock // Harvard University Press

Jordan Stump
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga // Archipelago Books

Catherine Porter
Freud: In His Time and Ours by Élisabeth Roudinesco // Harvard University Press

Jane Marie Todd
The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka // Harvard University Press

Read an Interview with Jane Marie Todd

Photos credit: Kari Bjorn www.karibjorn.com