June 07, 2016
6:00PM
29th Annual Translation Prize Awards Ceremony
The Century Association of New York 7 West 43rd Street New York, NY - RSVP
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.
FICTION FINALISTS
Emily Boyce
Nagasaki by Eric Faye, Gallic Books
John Cullen
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, Other Press
Christine Donougher
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Penguin Classics / Penguin Random House
Julian Evans
The Foundling’s War by Michel Déon, Gallic Books
Frank Wynne
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre, Quercus / MacLehose Press
NONFICTION FINALISTS
David Broder and Catherine Romatowski
Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston’s South End by Sylvie Tissot, Verso Books
Malcolm DeBevoise
Birth of a Theorem by Cédric Villani, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Bruce Fink
Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII by Jacques Lacan, Polity Press
François Raffoul and David Pettigrew
Heidegger in France by Dominique Janicaud, Indiana University Press
Steven Rendall
Bonaparte: 1769-1802 by Patrice Gueniffy, Harvard University Press
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