Linda Coverdale

Translations

• The Grain of the Voice by Roland Barthes
• Once Upon A Time: Visions of Old Japan by Chantal Edel
• The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood by Molyda Szymusiak
• Sweet Death by Claude Tardat
• The Wedding by Yann Queffélec
• Mortal Embrace: Living With AIDS by Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe
• The Children of Segu by Maryse Condé
• Out of Reach by Emmanuel Carrère
• Lion Mountain by Mustapha Tlili
• To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert
• Le Petit Garçon by Philippe Labro
• A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot
• Compulsory Happiness by Norman Manea
• The Traveler’s Tree by Bruno Bontempelli
• A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux
• What the Night Tells the Day by Hector Bianciotti
• Creole Folktales by Patrick Chamoiseau
• School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau
• Naming the Jungle by Antoine Volodine
• Black Tunnel White Light by Philippe Labro
• Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
• Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère
• Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun
• Rider on the Rain by Sébastien Japrisot
• Shadows of a Childhood by Elisabeth Gille
• Mamzelle Dragonfly by Raphaël Confiant
• Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows by Patrick Chamoiseau
• Lila Says by Chimo
• Undercurrents by Marie Darrieussecq
• The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
• Speak You Also by Paul Steinberg
• My Forbidden Face by Latifa
• 'Stories' by Mohammed Dib & Monique Agénor
• This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
• The Absolute Perfection of Crime by Tanguy Viel
• Making Love by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot
• The Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor
• Happy Days by Laurent Graff
• Massacre River by René Philoctète
• A Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld
• The Lecture by Lydie Salvayre
• In the Name of Honor by Mukhtar Mai
• Freedom by Malika Oufkir
• Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld
• Ravel by Jean Echenoz
• A French Life by Jean-Paul Dubois
• You Have Only One Picture Left by Laurent Graff
• Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel
• Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 by Marguerite Duras
• The Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot
• Running by Jean Echenoz
• The Antelope's Strategy by Jean Hatzfeld
• Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun
• 'Fiction in the First Person, or Immoral Writing', Marie Darrieussecq
• A Palace in the Old Village by Tahar Ben Jelloun
• My Life as a Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère
• I Am Nujood, Age Ten and Divorced by Nujood Ali
• A Tale of Two Martyrs by Tahar Ben Jelloun
• Lives Other than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère
• There Are Things I Want You to Know… by Eva Gabrielsson
• Lightning by Jean Echenoz
• La Petite by Michèle Halberstadt
• The Suitors by Cécile David-Weill
• "On Europa" by Marie Darrieussecq, The Trunk
• The Art of Sleeping Alone by Sophie Fontanelle
• Consolation of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson
• The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
• 1914 by Jean Echenoz
• Viviane by Julia Deck
• Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon
• The Queen's Caprice by Jean Echenoz
• The Misty Harbor by Georges Simenon
• The Emperor, C'est Moi by Hugo Horiot
• Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
• Maigret at the Coroner's by Georges Simenon
• The Hand by Georges Simenon
• "Julie's Life" by Emmanuel Carrère
• Maigret Goes to School by Georges Simenon
• "New York Diary" by Édouard Louis
• "Who Killed My Father?" by Édouard Louis
• Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau
• The Punishment by Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Honors

• 1997 French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Literature or Life
• 1999 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
• 1999 Finalist French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
• 2003 Finalist PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize: This Blinding Absence of Light
• 2004 International Dublin Literary Award: This Blinding Absence of Light
• 2004 Finalist PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize: Street of Lost Footsteps
• 2005 Finalist French-American Foundation Fiction Translation Prize: Making Love
• 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize : Machete Season.
• 2006 Finalist Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: This Blinding Absence of Light
• 2006 Finalist French-American Foundation Fiction Translation Prize: Massacre River
• 2007 French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Ravel
• 2008 Finalist French-American Foundation Translation Prize: Life Laid Bare
• 2009 Finalist International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Ravel
• 2010 Runner-up Scott Moncrieff Prize: The Strategy of Antelopes
• 2012 Finalist Best Translated Book Award: Lightning
• 2013 French Voices Award: Viviane
• 2013 A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: Consolations of the Forest
• 2014 Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year Award: Consolations of the Forest
• 2015 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Selection: 1914
• 2018 New York Times Notable Book of 2018: Slave Old Man
• 2019 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award Finalist: Slave Old Man
• 2019 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Fiction Finalist: Slave Old Man