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Carol Cosman
Berkeley, CA

TRANSLATES: French

Carol Cosman received her MA in English Literature from UC Berkeley, then lived in France where she continued her French studies. She has translated fiction, scholarship and creative nonfiction from French for the past 30 years. She lives with her husband in Berkeley, California, where she is the Translation Chair for PEN West and is a board member of the San Francisco based Center for the Art of Translation.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Currently working on: Taking a break from translation but happy to do more

Translations

Exile and the Kingdom, Albert Camus. Vintage Books, 2007.

Mount Analogue, René Daumal. Overlook Press, 2004.

Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism, Tzvetan Todorov. Princeton University Press, 2002.

Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? The Mystery behind the Agatha Christie Myster, Pierre Bayard. The New Press, 2000.

America Day by Day, Simone de Beauvoir. Univ. of Calif. Press, 1999.

Le Colonel Chabert, Honoré de Balzac. Grove Press, 1995.

The Girl with the Golden Eyes, Balzac. Carroll & Graf, 1996.

Wittgenstein Reads Freud, Jacques Bouveresse. Princeton, 1995.

A Romance of Destiny: Fanny Stevenson, Alexandra Lapierre. Carroll & Graf, 1995.

The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, Jean-Paul Sartre. Univ. of Chicago Press, vol. 1-5, 1981-1993.







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