Translator: Alison L. Strayer

Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. She won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, shared with Annie Ernaux, and the French-American Prize for Translation (both for The Years). Her novel Jardin et prairie, written in French, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Literature, the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal, and longlisted for the Prix littéraire France-Québec. Her work has also been longlisted for the Albertine Prize (Abdellah Taïa, Infidels), the Warwick Prize (Annie Ernaux, A Girl’s Story) and shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Translation (Mavis Gallant, Rencontres fortuites, a co-translation), as well as the Man Booker International Translation Prize (The Years), an honour shared with the author. She lives in Paris.