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Ros Schwartz

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Ros Schwartz

United Kingdom

Ros Schwartz is an award-winning translator of more than a hundred works of fiction and nonfiction, including the 2010 edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Among the francophone authors she has translated are Tahar Ben Jelloun, Aziz Chouaki, Fatou Diome, Dominique Eddé, and Ousmane Sembène....

In 2009 she was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2017 she was awarded the John Sykes Memorial Prize for Excellence by the UK-based Institute of Translation and Interpreting.

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Articles by Ros Schwartz

A Long Way from Douala

Max Lobe's novel A Long Way from Douala, translated by Ros Schwartz, is out next month from Other Press. The novel follows the narrator, Jean, and his friend Simon, as they search for…

Translated by Ros Schwartz

A Tactical Alliance

By Mamadou Kalidou Ba

Depleted as they were, they realized that they had to either team up or go under.

Translated from French by Ros Schwartz

The Restless

Skin has a memory.

Translated from French by Ros Schwartz

First Read—From “Translation as Transhumance”

By Mireille Gansel

The following is excerpted from Translation as Transhumance, Mireille Gansel’s humanist meditation on translation, translated into English by Ros Schwartz and forthcoming from the Feminist…

Translated by Ros Schwartz

The Avenging Whip

In my line of business, people don't talk much.

Translated from French by Ros Schwartz

A Relentless War

By Dominique Manotti

They immediately request permission to take samples in order to trace the source of the drug.

Translated from French by Ros Schwartz

From “The Belly of the Atlantic,” Chapter One

I'd like to tell them their frustrating match is like life: the best goals are always yet to come, it's just that waiting for them is painful.

Translated from French by Lulu Norman & Ros Schwartz