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Charlotte Mandell


TRANSLATES: French

Charlotte Mandell was recently awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for her translation of Zone by Mathias Énard (forthcoming from Open Letter Press).  Her translations of The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, The Book to Come and A Voice from Elsewhere by Maurice Blanchot, and The Flesh of Words by Jacques Rancière were finalists for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. Her translation of Maurice Blanchot's Faux Pas won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature for 2001-2002, awarded by the Modern Language Assocation.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Currently working on:

François Bizot, Facing the Torturer. New York: Knopf, forthcoming (February 2012).

 Translations 

Jonathan Littell, The Invisible Enemy.  Amazon Kindle Singles series, January 2011.

The Dalai Lama, My Spiritual Journey.  San Francisco: HarperOne, 2010.

Mathias Énard, Zone. Rochester: Open Letter Books, 2010.

Jules Verne, The Castle in Transylvania. New York: Melville House, 2010.

Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tombeau of Ibn Arabi and White Traverses, with an afterword by Jean-Luc Nancy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.

Jean-Luc Nancy, The Fall of Sleep. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.

Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.[2]

Pierre Bayard, Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.

Jean Paulhan, On Poetry and Politics (co-translated with Jennifer Bajorek and Eric Trudel). Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Marcel Proust, The Lemoine Affair. New York: Melville House, 2008.

Peter Szendy, Listen: A History of Our Ears. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Pierre Birnbaum, Geography of Hope. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008.

Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes. New York: Melville House, 2008.

Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.

Maurice Blanchot, A Voice from Elsewhere. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.

Benoît Duteurtre, The Little Girl and the Cigarette. New York: Melville House, 2007.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. New York: Random House, 2006.

Justine Lévy, Nothing Serious. New York: Melville House, 2005.

Guy de Maupassant, The Horla. New York: Melville House, 2005.

Sima Vaisman, A Jewish Doctor in Auschwitz. New York: Melville House, 2005.

Jean Daniel, The Jewish Prison. New York: Melville House, 2005.

Gustave Flaubert, A Simple Heart. New York: Melville House, 2004.

Jacques Rancière, The Flesh of Words. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, War, Evil, and the End of History. New York: Melville House, 2004.

Abdelwahab Meddeb, The Malady of Islam. Co-translated (as Ann Reid) with Pierre Joris. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Jean Genet, Fragments of the Artwork. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Maurice Blanchot, The Book to Come. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Maurice Blanchot, Faux Pas. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Antoine de Baecque, Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French Revolution. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Antoine de Baecque, The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Maurice Blanchot, The Work of Fire. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1995.












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