2022 Translation Prize Finalists
March 9, 2022
We are delighted to announce the 35th Annual Translation Prize finalists, a group of ten exceptional English translations of French works of fiction and nonfiction.
FICTION
Leslie Camhi’s translation of The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman,
Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster
Emma Ramadan’s translation of In Concrete by Anne Garréta
Deep Vellum Books
Sandra Smith’s translation of Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins
Lara Vergnaud’s translation of Life Sciences by Joy Sorman
Restless Books
Ros Schwartz’s translation of A Long Way from Douala: A Novel by Max Lobe
Other Press
NONFICTION
Ruth Diver’s translation of Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse by Charif Majdalani
Other Press
Susan Emanuel’s translation of The Belle Époque by Dominique Kalifa
Columbia University Press
Sophie R. Lewis’s translation of In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin
New York Review Books
Lindsay Turner’s translation of In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle
Fordham University Press
Susan Emanuel’s translation of Rescue, Relief, and Resistance: The Jewish Labor Committee’s Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934–1945 by Catherine Collomp
Wayne State University Press
