French-American Translation Prize Finalists

I can’t find it on their website, but the French-American Foundation recently announced the finalists for their annual Translation Awards. These awards, which are co-sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation, are given out to the best French translations in both fiction and non-fiction published in the past year. The winners will be announced at an award ceremony on May 26th.

Here are the fiction finalists:

• Alison Anderson for The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• John Cullen for The Only Son by Stéphane Audeguy
• Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays for Small Lives by Pierre Michon
• Douglas Parmée for Afloat by Guy de Maupassant
• Julie Rose for Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Roger Whitehouse for The Beast Within by Emile Zola

And for non-fiction:

• Ryan Bloom for Notebooks 1951-1959 by Albert Camus
• Matthew Cobb and Malcolm Debevoise for Life Explained by Michel Morange
• Janet Lloyd for Comparing the Incomparable by Marcel Detienne
• Jeremy Mercer for Abolition by Robert Badinter
• Richard A. Rand for Corpus by Jean-Luc Nancy