Adriana Hunter

Adriana Hunter is a British translator of French literature. She is known for translating over 60 French novels, such as ''Fear and Trembling'' by Amélie Nothomb or ''The Girl Who Played Go'' by Shan Sa.
She has been short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice.
In 2011 she won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Véronique Olmi's ''Beside the Sea''.
In 2013, she won the 27th Annual Translation Prize founded by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation for her translation of ''Electrico W'' by Hervé Le Tellier (2013). She is also a contributor to Words Without Borders. She lives in Kent, England. In 2017, she became the English translator for new comic albums in the ''Asterix'' series.

Translations from French

The dates refer to the publication of the English translation.

* ''The Disappearance: A Primer of Loss'' by Geneviève Jurgensen (2000).
* ''Five Photos of My Wife'' by Agnès Desarthe (2001).
* ''The Darkest Red'' by Viviane Moore (2001).
* ''Fear and Trembling'' by Amélie Nothomb (2002).
* ''Telling Lies'' by Sophie Marceau (2001).
* ''9.99: A Novel'' by Frédéric Beigbeder (2002).
* ''Good Intentions'' by Agnès Desarthe (2002).
* ''Death in the Dordogne'' by Louis Sanders (2002).
* ''The White Way'' by Viviane Moore (2002).
* ''The Girl Who Played Go'' by Shan Sa (2003).
* ''The Englishman's Wife'' by Louis Sanders (2003).
* '' The Sexual Life of Catherine M'' by Catherine Millet (2003).
* ''How I became Stupid'' by Martin Page (2004).
* ''Holy Smoke'' by Tonino Benacquista (2004).
* ''All That I Have'' by Laurent Joffrin (2004).
* ''Grey Souls'' by Philippe Claudel (2005).
* ''Someone Else'' by Tonino Benacquista (2005).
* ''UV'' by Serge Joncour (2005).
* ''Oscar and the Lady in Pink'' by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (2005).
* ''Framed'' by Tonino Benacquista (2006).
* ''The Woman in the Row Behind'' by Françoise Dorner (2006).
* ''Empress'' by Shan Sa (2006).
* ''The Unforeseen'' by Christian Oster (2007).
* ''Death of an Ancient King'' by Laurent Gaudé (2007).
* ''Kick the Animal Out'' by Véronique Ovaldé (2007).
* ''When I Was a Soldier'' by Valérie Zenatti (2007).
* ''A Bottle in the Gaza Sea'' by Valérie Zenatti (2008).
* ''Chez Moi'' by Agnès Desarthe (2008).
* ''Eldorado'' by Laurent Gaudé (2008).
* ''Noir: A Novel'' by Olivier Pauvert (2008).
* ''Five Photos of My Wife'' by Agnès Desarthe (2008).
* ''Alexander and Alestria: A Novel'' by Shan Sa (2009).
* ''And My See-through Heart'' by Véronique Ovaldé (2009).
* ''Scandalous'' by Laura D (2009).
* ''Once on a Moonless Night'' by Dai Sijie (2010).
* ''In the Train'' by Christian Oster (2010).
* ''Where We Going, Daddy?: Life with Two Sons Unlike Any Others'' by Jean-Louis Fournier (2010).
* ''Tehran, Lipstick and Loopholes'' by Nahal Tajadod (2010)
* ''Enough about Love'' by Hervé Le Tellier (2011).
* ''The Intervention of a Good Man'' by Hervé Le Tellier (2011).
* ''Beside the Sea'' by Véronique Olmi (2012).
* ''Climates'' by André Maurois (2012).
* ''The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women'' by Elisabeth Badinter (2012).
* ''Life Is Short and Desire Endless'' by Patrick Lapeyre (2012).
* ''Balzac's Omelette: A delicious tour of French food and culture with Honore de Balzac'' by Ankha Muhlstein (2012).
* ''The Crab and the Lamb'' by Manu Cornet (2012).
* ''Holy Smoke'' by Tonino Benacquista (2012).
* ''Noah's Child'' by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (2012).
* ''My Brother Simple'' by Marie-Aude Murail (2012).
* ''The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur'' by Jean-Claude Ellena (2013).
* ''The Foundling'' by Agnès Desarthe (2013).
* ''Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand: A Mother's Memoir'' by Anne-Dauphine Julliand (2013).
* ''Under the Tripoli Sky'' by Kamal Ben Hameda (2013).
* ''Electrico W'' by Hervé Le Tellier (2013).
* ''Chez Moi'' by Agnès Desarthe (2013).
* ''The Son'' by Michel Rostain (2013)
* ''The Red Collar'' by Jean-Christophe Rufin (2015).
* ''Reader for Hire'' by Raymond Jean (2015).
* ''The Travels of Daniel Asher'' by Déborah Lévy-Bertherat (2015).
* ''A Special Day'' by Anne-Dauphine Julliand (2015).
* ''Couple Mechanics'' by Nelly Alard (2015).
* ''Her Father's Daughter'' by Marie Sizun (2016).
* ''The Passion of Mademoiselle S.'' by Jean-Yves Berthault (2016).
* ''The Gardens of Consolation'' by Parisa Reza (2017).
* ''The Pen and the Brush'' by Anka Muhlstein (2017).
* ''Who You Think I Am'' by Camille Laurens (2017).
* ''Asterix and the Chariot Race'' by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad (2017).
* ''Hitler, My Neighbor'' by Edgar Feuchtwanger with Bertil Scali (2017)
* ''Who You Think I Am'' by Camille Laurens (2017).
* ''Woman at Sea'' by Catherine Poulain (2018)
* ''How to Find Love in the Little Things'' by Virginie Grimaldi (2018).
* ''The Last of Our Kind'' by Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (2018).
* ''The Twelve Tasks of Asterix'' by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny (2018).
* ''All Happy Families'' by Hervé Le Tellier (2019)
* ''Bakhita'' by Véronique Olmi (2019)
* ''If, a Mother's Memoir'' by Lise Marzouk (2019)
* ''Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter'' (comics) by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad (2019)
* ''Chasing the Stars'' by Virginie Grimaldi (2019).
* ''This Little Family'' by Inès Bayard (2020)
* ''All About Sarah'' by Pauline Dellabroy-Allard (2020)
* ''The Heart, Frida Kahlo in Paris'' by Marc Petitjean (2020)
* ''Sapiens: A Graphic History volume 1'' by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave (2020)
* ''The Life I Was Meant to Live'' by Julien Sandrel (2020).
* ''My Sardinian Summer'' by Michaël Huras (2020)
* ''I Just Wanted to Save My Family'' by Stéphane Pélissier (2021).
* ''Back to Japan'' by Marc Petitjean (2021).
* ''Winter Flowers'' by Angélique Villeneuve (2021).
* ''The Anomaly'' by Hervé Le Tellier (2021)
* ''Asterix and the Griffin (comics) by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad (2021)

References

External links

Interview by Tony Perez in Tin House

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