Current Grantees

Villa Albertine and Face Foundation are pleased to announce the list of recipients of the first inaugural Albertine Translation Fund and Prizes selection.

Representing new trends in all categories including fiction, non-fiction, and comics, Albertine Translation recognizes the quality of both the original work and the translation. Each book listed below will receive $2,000 to cover the publishing costs, and 50% of the translation costs up to $5,000.  

While most of these titles have secured an American publisher, some are waiting to find a good home. Should you want more information about these titles please email us at translation@villa-albertine.org. We will make a connection with the translator and right holders of the works. 

Among the books supported by the program, the committee also choses two winners (one in fiction and one in non-fiction) to be announced in a ceremony at the Villa Albertine Headquarters. The winners will receive a $5,000 prize allocated to the translator.  

More information will be available on this page after the ceremony. 

2022 LIST OF GRANTEES  

A- Youth and Comics 

• Rouli Rouli Roulette by Cécile Bergame (Didier Jeunesse / Red Comet Press, LLC) Translation by Angus Yuen-Killick 

• Chroniques de Francine R., résistante et déportée by Boris Golzio (Editions Glenat / Dead Reckoning (imprint of Naval Institute Press) Translation by Ivanka Hahnenberger 

• Astrid Bromure. Comment atomiser les fantômes by Fabrice Parme (Rue de Sèvres / Seeking an american publisher) Translation by Kiki Anderson 

B- Classics 

• Les soixante-quinze feuillets : Et autres manuscrits inédits by Marcel Proust (Gallimard / Harvard University Press) Translation by Sam Taylor 

• L’Enfant et la Rivière by Henri Bosco (Gallimard / New York Review Books) Translation by Joyce Zonana 

• Fragments d’un paradis by Jean Giono (Editions Gallimard / Archipelago Books) Translation by Paul Eprile 

C- Poetry 

Quand on n’a que la terre by Abdourahman A. Waberi (Editions Points / Seeking an American publisher) Translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson  

• Le Rapt by Maram Al-Masri (Bruno Doucey / White Pine Press) Translation by Hélène Cardona 

D- Fiction 

• La Mezzanine : Le dernier récit de Catarina Quia by Anne-Marie Albiach (Editions du Seuil / seeking an American publisher) Translation by Teresa Villa-Ignacio 

• Les années 10 (“Stand up”) by Nathalie Quintane (La Fabrique / Dispersed Holdings) Translation by Jacqueline Feldman 

• La femme et l’oiseau by Isabelle Sorente (JC Lattes / Seeking an American Publisher) Translation by Heather Green 

• Milwaukee Blues by Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Sabine Wespieser Editeur / Schaffner Press) Translation by Marjolijn de Jager

• Le Voyant d’Étampes by Abel Quentin (Éd. de l’Observatoire / Humensis / Seeking an American publisher) Translation by Thea Petrou 

• Tangente vers l’est by Maylis de Kerangal (Editions Gallimard / Archipelago Books) Translation by Jessica Moore 

E- Non-fiction 

• Des empires sous la terre : Histoire écologique et raciale de la sécularisation by Mohamad Amer Meziane (La découverte / Verso Books) Translation by Jonathan Adjemian

• Derrière le niqab : 10 ans d’enquête sur les femmes qui ont porté et enlevé le voile intégral by Agnes De Feo (Arman Collin / Fordham University Press) in a translation by Lindsay Turner 

• Sans Ciel ni Terre : Paroles Orphelines du Génocide des Tutsi (1994-2006) by Hélène Dumas (La Découverte / Fordham University Press) in a translation by Catherine Porter 

• Communisme et Stratégie by Isabelle Garo (Editions Amsterdam / Verso Books) Translation by Gregory Elliott 

• Au voleur ! Anarchisme et philosophie by Catherine Malabou (PUF/Humensis / Polity Press) Translation by Carolyn Shread 

• La possibilité du fascisme by Ugo Palheta (La Découverte / Verso Books) Translation by Gregory Elliott 

• Traduction et violence by Tiphaine Samoyault (Seuil / seeking an American publisher) Translation by Alexander Hertich 

• Pour une écologie des images by Peter Szendy (Les Editions de Minuit / Verso Books) Translation by Marco Roth 

Contact

Books & Ideas Department
Cultural Services of the French Embassy / Villa Albertine
972 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10075
translation@villa-albertine.org