Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer.
Born in Co. Sligo, Ireland, he worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at comic magazine Deadline. He worked for a time at AOL before becoming a literary translator. He has translated many authors including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder and the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. He jointly won the International Dublin Literary Award with Houellebecq for Atomised, his translation of Les Particules élémentaires. His translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World, a novel set in the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York during the September 11, 2001 attacks, won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Notably, he is a two-time winner of both the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for translation from the French (in 2008 for Frédéric Beigbeder's Holiday in a Coma and Love Lasts Three Years and in 2015 for Boualem Sansal's Harraga) and the Premio Valle Inclán for Spanish Translation (in 2011 for Marcelo Figueras's Kamchatka and in 2013 for Alonso Cueto's The Blue Hour).
His book, I Was Vermeer, a biography of Han van Meegeren was published by Bloomsbury in August 2006 and serialised as the BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" (read by Anton Lesser) in August 2006.
Selected translations
- Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
- Platform by Michel Houellebecq (adapted by Carnal Acts for the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA))
- Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
- The Patagonian Hare : A Memoir by Claude Lanzmann (shortlisted for the 2013 French-American Florence Gould Translation Prize)
- An Unfinished Business (published in the US as The German Mudjahid) by Boualem Sansal
- The Frozen Heart by Almudena Grandes
- The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto (shortlisted for the 2013 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize)
- What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
- Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Windows on the World by Frédéric Beigbeder
- Mammals by Pierre Mérot
- Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma
- Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma
- The Little Book of Philosophy by André Comte-Sponville
- Working Knowledge by Petr Král
- Forever Nude by Guy Goffette
- Banquet of Lies by Amin Zaoui
- Somewhere in a Desert by Dominique Sigaud (a New York Times notable book)
- In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González
- Liveforever by Andrés Caicedo
- Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes (shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018) [1]
- The Impostor by Javier Cercas (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018)
- Au revoir là-haut by Pierre Lemaitre (published in English as, The Great Swindle, 2015)
- Règne animal by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (published in English as, Animalia, 2019)
- Las tierras arrasadas by Emiliano Monge (published in English as, Among the Lost, 2018)[2]
Awards
- 2016: Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for the translation of Harraga by Boualem Sansal [3]
- 2015: Winner of the CWA International Dagger for the translation of Camille by Pierre Lemaitre [4]
- 2014: Winner of the CWA International Dagger for the translation of The Siege by Arturo Perez-Reverte [5]
- 2014: Winner of the Premio Valle-Inclán for the translation of The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto[6]
- 2013: Joint Winner of the CWA International Dagger for the translation of Alex by Pierre Lemaitre
- 2012: Winner of the Premio Valle-Inclán for the translation of Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras[6]
- 2008: Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for the translation of Holiday in a Coma and Love Lasts Three Years by Frédéric Beigbeder [7]
- 2005: Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Windows on the World by Frédéric Beigbeger
- 2002: Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award for Atomised' by Michel Houellebecq
References
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- ^ Battersby, Eileen (25 November 2018). "Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge review – a rich and shocking tale of human traffickers". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
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- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2012.