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Translation Prize Finalist!
28 February 2013
"No One" (Tin House Books) by Gwenaëlle Aubry and translated by Trista Selous is a finalist for the French American Foundation Translation Prize!
"No One" is a fictional memoir in dictionary...
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Cross-Over YA Panel Featured in Publishers Weekly
09 January 2013
Thank you to everyone who attended our panel this month on New Trends in YA Literature at La Maison Française!
For anyone who missed it, Publishers Weekly wrote a great review of the event....
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FAF Translation prize call for submissions
16 September 2012
Entries are invited for the 2012 Translation Prize offered by the French-American Foundation and The Florence Gould Hall Foundation. The $10,000 prize is for the best English translation of French in...
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Residence for translators of French literature
21 August 2012
The Aquitaine region is offering a one-month residency in Bordeaux in December 2012.
The translators in residence will receive a grant of 1,500 Euro.
Applications should be sent in...
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Willis from Tunis in The Guardian
11 July 2012
A cross between Simon’s Cat and The Rabbi’s Cat, Willis is the cat behind the Tunisian revolution. His creator, Nadia Khiari has been interviewed in The Guardian this week.
You can watch here...
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Short story by Jean Ferry in The Coffin Factory
24 June 2012
The latest issue of The Coffin Factory—the third for this august up-and-comer!—features Jean Ferry’s solemn yet witty consideration of sleep, “On the Frontiers of Plaster” translated by Edward Gauvin....
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A bestseller by two nonagenarian former resistants
21 May 2012
If you have been inspired by the recent "occupy" movements all around the world, don't miss A PATH TO HOPE by 94 year old former resistant Stephane Hessel and 90 year old French thinker Edgar Morin.
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Dany Laferrière on the shortlist for the 2012 BTBA
25 February 2012
We are delighted to announce that I Am a Japanese Writer by Dany Laferrière has made the shortlist of the 2012 Best Translated Book Award!
Overviews of the ten fiction finalists can be found...
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Etonnants Voyageurs in Haiti
18 December 2011
The third edition of Étonnants Voyageurs [Astonishing Travelers], the International Book and Film Festival of Haiti will take place from February 1 to 4, 2012.
More than 40 authors will gather...
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Excerpt of The Pianist in the Dark
25 September 2011
A sensual, evocative tale inspired by the life of Maria-Theresa von Paradis, The Pianist in the Dark by Michéle Halberstadt has been excerpted in the Open Road Media Blog:
SHE DOESN’T KNOW...
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