About The Author
Chris Clarke has translated work by Raymond Queneau, Pierre Mac Orlan, Éric Chevillard, and Ryad Girod, among others. He was awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for fiction in 2019 for his translation of Marcel Schwob’s Imaginary Lives. Two years earlier he was a finalist for the same prize for his translation of Patrick Modiano’s In the Café of Lost Youth.
