Burgess Grant: the results
Ahoy, bookworms!
It gives us great joy, here at the Book Office, to announce the list of books we’ll be supporting the translation of with our annual Burgess Grant.
Comic Books and Young Adult
Freedom Hospital by Hamid Sulaiman, published by Jonathan Cape, translated by Francesca Barrie.
The Arab of the Future 3 by Riad Sattouf, published by Two Roads, translated by Sam Taylor.
Josephine Baker by Catel Muller and José-Louis Bocquet, published by Self Made Hero, translated by Edward Gauvin and Mercedes Claire Gillion.
Phobos 1, 2 and 3 by Victor Dixen, published by Bonnier Zaffre (Hot Key Books), translated by Daniel Hahn.
Fiction
Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan, published by Bloomsbury, translated by George Miller.
Little Countries by Gaël Faye, published by Chatto & Windus, translated by Sarah Ardizzone.
Animal Reign by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, published by Fitzcarraldo, translated by Jessica Moore.
Your Father’s Room by Michel Déon, published by Gallic Books, translated by Julian Evans.
The History of Violence by Edouard Louis, published by Harvill Secker, translated by Michael Lucey.
Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes, published by MacLehose, translated by Frank Wynne.
The Executioner Weeps, The King of Fools and The Gravedigger's Bread by Frédéric Dard, published by Pushkin Press translated by David Coward for the first, Louise Lalaurie for the second and Frank Wynne for the third.
Non-Fiction
Spinoza: The Ethics of an Outlaw by Ivan Segré, published by Bloomsbury, translated by David Broder.
Traduire comme transhumer (French title ) by Mireille Gansel, published by Les Fugitives, translated by Ros Schwartz.
The Power of Images. Siena, 1338 by Patrick Boucheron, published by Polity, translated by Andrew Brown.
Lévi-Strauss. A Biography by Emmanuelle Loyer, published by Polity, translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff.
A Walk Through Paris by Eric Hazan, published by Verso, translated by David Fernbach.
We look forward to seeing these titles in print and wish them success on the UK market.
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