Frank Wynne Explained

Birth Place:County Sligo, Ireland
Occupation:Literary translator and writer
Awards:International Dublin Literary Award
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Scott Moncrieff Prize
Premio Valle-Inclán
CWA International Dagger
Republic of Consciousness Prize

Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer.

Biography

Born in County Sligo in the west of Ireland, Frank Wynne worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at comic magazine Deadline. He worked for a time at AOL, before becoming a literary translator. He has translated many authors, including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder and the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma.

He has twice jointly won the International Dublin Literary Award: with Houellebecq for Atomised (his translation of Les Particules élémentaires); and with Alice Zeniter for The Art of Losing (his translation of L'Art de Perdre).[1] His translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World, a novel set in the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York during the September 11, 2001 attacks, won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Notably, he is a two-time winner of both the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for translation from the French (in 2008 for Frédéric Beigbeder's Holiday in a Coma and Love Lasts Three Years and in 2015 for Boualem Sansal's Harraga) and the Premio Valle Inclán for Spanish Translation (in 2011 for Marcelo Figueras's Kamchatka and in 2013 for Alonso Cueto's The Blue Hour).

Wynne's book I Was Vermeer, a biography of Han van Meegeren, was published by Bloomsbury in August 2006 and serialised as the BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" (read by Anton Lesser) in August 2006.

Wynne has edited two major anthologies for Head of Zeus: Found in Translation: 100 of the finest stories every translated, (2018)[2] and the QUEER: LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday (2021).[3]

In 2021, it was announced that he would be the Chair of the judging panel of the 2022 International Booker Prize – the first time a translator has chaired the panel.[4]

Selected translations

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Crowley . Sinéad . French author Alice Zeniter wins 2022 Dublin Literary Award . 23 May 2022 . RTÉ News . 23 May 2022.
  2. Book: Wynne, Frank. Found in Translation. Head of Zeus. 2018. 9781786695284. London.
  3. Web site: title. 2021-07-27. Head of Zeus. en.
  4. Web site: The 2022 International Booker Prize Judges Announced. The Booker Prizes. 14 July 2021. 14 May 2023.
  5. News: Man Booker International: Irish translator has two books on list. .
  6. News: Battersby . Eileen . Eileen Battersby . 25 November 2018 . Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge review – a rich and shocking tale of human traffickers . . 26 September 2019.
  7. Web site: Scott Moncrieff Past Winners | Society of Authors - Protecting the rights and furthering the interests of authors . 2012-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105134816/http://www.societyofauthors.org/scott-moncrieff-past-winners . 2013-11-05 . dead .
  8. Web site: The Siege - The Crime Writers' Association.
  9. Web site: Translation Prizes | Society of Authors - Protecting the rights and furthering the interests of authors . 2012-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905153719/http://www.societyofauthors.org/translation-prizes . 2015-09-05 . dead .
  10. Web site: Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2015 Winner Pierre Lemaitre, tr. Frank Wynne: Camille . The Crime Writers' Association.
  11. Web site: The Scott Moncrieff Prize Society of Authors - Protecting the rights and furthering the interests of authors. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150226152327/http://www.societyofauthors.org/scott-moncrieff-prize-1. 2015-02-26.
  12. Web site: Review of Animalia, winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2020 . Konstantin . Rega. April 2, 2020. 2022-05-17 . Republic of Consciousness . en-US.
  13. Web site: Barry . Aoife . Alice Zeniter and Frank Wynne named as winners of €100k Dublin Literary Award . May 23, 2022. 2022-05-28 . TheJournal.ie . en.
  14. Web site: 2020-05-08 . French – Scott Moncrieff Prize - The Society of Authors . 2024-05-16 . en-GB.
  15. Web site: Curran . Gabrielle . 2024-05-14 . 2024 Translation Prize Winners . 2024-05-16 . French-American Foundation . en-US.