Natasha Lehrer is a writer and literary translator. She was born in

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and studied at

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and the Université de Paris VIII. Her translations have received multiple awards, and been longlisted and shortlisted for several prizes. She was the joint winner (with Cecile Menon) of the 2016

Scott Moncrieff Prize The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000 literary prize for French to English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the Translators Asso ...

for their translation of

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's '' Suite for Barbara Loden''. Her writing has appeared in

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, the

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, Haaretz,

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, Fantastic Man,

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, among other publications. She is a former judge of the

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. Her translations include: * 2022 – ''Our Unexpected Brothers'', by Amin Maalouf ( World Editions) * 2022 – ''Absence'', by Lucie Paye ( Les Fugitives) * 2022 – ''The Vanished Collection'', by Pauline Baer de Perignon ( New Vessel Press) * 2021 – ''Consent'', by Vanessa Springora (

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) * 2020 – ''I Hate Men'', by Pauline Harmange (4th Estate) * 2020 – ''Villa of Delirium'', by

Adrien Goetz Adrien Goetz (born 1966 in Caen, Calvados) is a French Art History Professor, art critic and novelist. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure. His work appeared in '' Zurban'', and ''Beaux-Arts Magazine''. He is Lecturer in Art Histo ...

( New Vessel Press) * 2020 – ''The Last Days of Ellis Island'', by

Gaëlle Josse Gaelle Josse (born 1960) is a French poet and novelist. She has written four novels till date. She has won a number of literary prizes and her work has been translated into several languages. Works * ''Les heures silencieuses'' (''The Quiet Hou ...

( World Editions) * 2020 – ''The Sailor of Casablanca'', by Charline Malaval (

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) * 2020 – ''The Most Beautiful Job in the World'', by Giulia Mensitieri ( Bloomsbury Publishing) * 2020 – ''The White Dress'', by

( Les Fugitives/

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) * 2019 – ''Memories of Low Tide'', by Chantal Thomas ( Pushkin Press) * 2019 – ''The Chinese Intelligence Services, from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping'', by

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(Hurst/OUP) * 2019 – ''Doves Among Hawks: Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movement'', by Samy Cohen (Hurst/OUP) (with Cynthia Schoch) * 2018 – ''The Survival of the Jews in France'', by Jacques Semelin (Hurst/OUP) (with Cynthia Schoch) * 2018 – ''A Call for Revolution'', by the

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(

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) (with Georgia de Chamberet) * 2018 – ''The Sacred Conspiracy'', by Georges Bataille et al (

Atlas Press Atlas Press began publishing in 1983, and specialises in extremist and avant-garde prose writing from the 1890s to the present day. It is the largest publisher in English of books on Surrealism and has an extensive list relating to Dada, Surreal ...

) * 2017 – ''The Punishments of Hell'', by

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(

) * 2016 – ''Equipée: Journey to the Land of the Real'', by

Victor Segalen Victor Segalen (14 January 1878 – 21 May 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic. He was born in Brest. He studied medicine and graduated at the Navy ...

(

) * 2015 – ''Suite for Barbara Loden'', by

( Les Fugitives/

) (with Cécile Menon) She lives in

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with her husband and three children.Bio
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References

External links

Interview for the 2017 French-American Foundation Translation Prize

Interview with Bloom (The Millions)

Interview on Bookblast

Interview on Lucy Writers

Podcast interview with Lucy Popescu
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