Brice Matthieussent (born 1950) is a French literary translator. He has translated over 200 novels from English into French. He won the 2013 Prix Jules Janin from the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

for his translations of the works of

Jim Harrison James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s ...

Early life

Brice Matthieussent was born in 1950. He graduated from the

École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris Mines Paris - PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (until May 2022 Mines ParisTech, also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines de Paris, les Mines, or Paris School of Mines), is a French grande école and a c ...

in 1973, and he earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1977.

Career

Matthieussent is the director of the "Fictives" collection for Christian Bourgois éditeur, a French publishing company, since 1990. He has been a Professor of Aesthetics at the École supérieure d'art et de design Marseille-Méditerranée in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

since 2004. Matthieussent has translated over 200 books from English into French, including the works of

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and

William T. Vollmann William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel ''Europe Central''.

. He won the 201
Jules Janin
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for his translations of Jim Harrison. Matthieussent is the author of one novel. He is also a contributor to '' art press'' and '' Le Magazine Littéraire''.

Works

References

External links

Faculty webpage
Living people 1950 births Writers from Paris Mines Paris - PSL alumni French–English translators Literary translators French book editors {{France-translator-stub