Linda Coverdale

Linda Coverdale is a literary translator from French. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, Annie Ernaux, Sébastien Japrisot, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Philippe Labro, Yann Queffélec, Jorge Semprún, Lyonel Trouillot, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean Hartzfeld, Sylvain Tesson and Marguerite Duras.

Translations

*''The Grain of the Voice'' by Roland Barthes (Hill & Wang, 1985)
*''Once Upon A Time: Visions of Old Japan'' by Chantal Edel (The Friendly Press, 1986)
*''The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood'' by Molyda Szymusiak (Hill & Wang, 1986)
*''Sweet Death'' by Claude Tardat (The Overlook Press, 1987)
*''The Wedding'' by Yann Queffélec (Macmillan, 1987)
*''Mortal Embrace: Living With AIDS'' by Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe (Hill & Wang, 1988)
*''The Children of Segu'' by Maryse Condé (Viking Penguin, 1989)
*''Out of Reach'' by Emmanuel Carrère (translation for Macmillan, 1990)
*''Lion Mountain'' by Mustapha Tlili (Arcade Publishing/Little by Brown & Company, 1990)
*''To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life'' by Hervé Guibert (Atheneum, 1991)
*''Le Petit Garçon'' by Philippe Labro (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992)
*''A Very Long Engagement'' by Sébastien Japrisot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
*''Compulsory Happiness'' by Norman Manea (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993)
*''The Traveler’s Tree'' by Bruno Bontempelli (The New Press, 1994)
*''A Frozen Woman'' by Annie Ernaux (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995)
*''What the Night Tells the Day'' by Hector Bianciotti (The New Press, 1995)
*''Creole Folktales'' by Patrick Chamoiseau (The New Press, 1995)
*''School Days'' by Patrick Chamoiseau (The University of Nebraska Press, 1996)
*''Naming the Jungle'' by Antoine Volodine (The New Press, 1996)
*''Black Tunnel White Light'' by Philippe Labro (Kodansha America, 1997)
*''Pig Tales'' by Marie Darrieussecq (The New Press, 1997)
*''Class Trip'' by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1997)
*''Literature or Life'' by Jorge Semprún (Viking, 1997)
*''Rider on the Rain'' by Sébastien Japrisot (The Harvill Press, 1998)
*''Shadows of a Childhood'' by Élisabeth Gille (The New Press, 1998)
*''Mamzelle Dragonfly'' by Raphaël Confiant (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999)
*''Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows'' by Patrick Chamoiseau (The University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
*'' Lila Says'' by Chimo (Scribner, 1999)
*''Undercurrents'' by Marie Darrieussecq (The New Press, 2000)
*''The Adversary'' by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
*''Speak You Also'' by Paul Steinberg (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
*''My Forbidden Face'' by Latifa (Miramax Books, 2001)
*'Stories' by Mohammed Dib & Monique Agénor (''The Hudson Review'', Autumn 2001)
*''This Blinding Absence of Light'' by Tahar Ben Jelloun (The New Press, 2001)
*''The Absolute Perfection of Crime'' by Tanguy Viel (The New Press, 2002)
*''Making Love'' by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (The New Press, 2003)
*''Street of Lost Footsteps'' by Lyonel Trouillot (The University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
*''The Prophecy of the Stones'' by Flavia Bujor (Miramax Books, 2004)
*''Happy Days'' by Laurent Graff (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004)
*''Massacre River'' by René Philoctète (New Directions, 2005)
*''A Machete Season'' by Jean Hatzfeld (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Serpent's Tail, 2005)
*''The Lecture'' by Lydie Salvayre (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005)
*''In the Name of Honor'' by Mukhtar Mai (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2006)
*''Freedom'' by Malika Oufkir (Miramax Books, 2006)
*''Life Laid Bare'' by Jean Hatzfeld (Other Press, 2007)
*''Ravel'' by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2007)
*''A French Life'' by Jean-Paul Dubois (Knopf, 2007)
*''You Have Only One Picture Left'' by Laurent Graff (film script, OuiDO! Entertainment, 2008)
*''Beyond Suspicion'' by Tanguy Viel (The New Press, 2008)
*''Wartime Writings: 1943-1949'' by Marguerite Duras (The New Press, 2008)
*''The Children of Heroes'' by Lyonel Trouillot (The University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
*''Running'' by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2009)
*''The Antelope's Strategy'' by Jean Hatzfeld (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009)
*''Leaving Tangier'' by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Penguin, 2009)
*'Fiction in the First Person, or Immoral Writing', Marie Darrieussecq (''L'Esprit Créateur'', Vol. 50, No. 3, Fall 2010)
*''A Palace in the Old Village'' by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Penguin, 2010)
*''My Life as a Russian Novel'' by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2010)
*''I Am Nujood, Age Ten and Divorced'' by Nujood Ali (Crown/Random House, 2010)
*''A Tale of Two Martyrs'' by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Granta, 2011)
*''Lives Other than My Own'' by Emmanuel Carrère (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2011)
*''There Are Things I Want You to Know…'' by Eva Gabrielsson (Seven Stories Press, 2011)
*''Lightning'' by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2011)
*''La Petite'' by Michèle Halberstadt (Other Press, 2012)
*''The Suitors'' by Cécile David-Weill (Other Press, 2012)
*''"On Europa"'' by Marie Darrieussecq, The Trunk (Les éditions Gallimard, 2013)
*''The Art of Sleeping Alone'' by Sophie Fontanelle (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
*''Consolation of the Forest'' by Sylvain Tesson (Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013)
*'' The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien'' by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2014)
*''1914'' by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2014)
*''Viviane'' by Julia Deck (The New Press, 2014)
*''Night at the Crossroads'' by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2014)
*''The Queen's Caprice'' by Jean Echenoz (The New Press, 2015)
*''The Misty Harbor'' by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2015)
*''The Emperor, C'est Moi'' by Hugo Horiot (Seven Stories Press, 2015)
*''Maigret in New York'' by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
*''Maigret at the Coroner's'' by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
*''The Hand'' by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2016)
*''"Julie's Life"'' by Emmanuel Carrère (Granta, 2016)
*''Maigret Goes to School'' by Georges Simenon (Penguin Modern Classics, 2017)
*''"New York Diary"'' by Édouard Louis (Bomb Magazine, Fall 2017)
*''"Who Killed My Father?"'' by Édouard Louis (Speech at Litteraturhuset, Oslo, October 2017)
*''Slave Old Man'' by Patrick Chamoiseau (The New Press, 2018)
*''The Punishment'' by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Yale University Press, 2020)

Honors

*1997 French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Literature or Life
*1999 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres).
*1999 Finalist French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
*2003 Finalist PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize: This Blinding Absence of Light
*2004 International Dublin Literary Award: This Blinding Absence of Light
*2004 Finalist PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize: Street of Lost Footsteps
*2005 Finalist French-American Foundation Fiction Translation Prize: Making Love
*2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize (Scott Moncrieff Prize): Machete Season ."The Scott Moncrieff Prize for French Translation: Past Winners"
The Society of Authors, accessed October 29, 2010
*2006 Finalist Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: This Blinding Absence of Light
*2006 Finalist French-American Foundation Fiction Translation Prize: Massacre River
*2007 French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Ravel (Fiction)
*2008 Finalist French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Life Laid Bare (Nonfiction)
*2009 Finalist International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Ravel
*2010 Runner-up Scott Moncrieff Prize: The Strategy of Antelopes (Serpents Tail)
*2012 Finalist Best Translated Book Award: Lightning (Fiction)
*2013 French Voices Award: Viviane
*2013 A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: Consolations of the Forest
*2014 Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year Award: Consolations of the Forest
*2015 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Selection: 1914
*2018 New York Times Notable Book of 2018: Slave Old Man
*2019 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award Finalist: Slave Old Man
*2019 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Fiction Finalist: Slave Old Man

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