Writing, the Other Life: Texts and Art by and about Annie Ernaux (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644214152)

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, ANNIE ERNAUX is considered by many to be France's most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, A Man's Place, and The Young Man.

ROS SCHWARTZ has translated a wide range of Francophone literary fiction, memoirs, nonfiction and literature for children and young adults. In 2009 she was awarded the distinction of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her services to literature. SOPHIE LEWIS is a translator and an editor working from French and Portuguese, and her translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. FRANK WYNNE is an Irish writer and translator and he chaired the jury of the 2022 Booker International. He has won numerous awards, and most recently his translation of The Art of Losing won the 2022 Dublin Literary Award. ALISON L. STRAYER is a Canadian writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal, and the Prix littéraire France-Québec. Translator EMMA RAMADAN is based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she co-owns Riffraff Bookstore and Bar. She's the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Fulbright grant, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. DAN SIMON is founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press. His prior translations from the French include Van Gogh: Self Portraits, with accompanying letters from Vincent to his brother Theo by Pascal Bonafoux, and, with Carol Volk, Post-Impressionists by Guy Cogeval.