Tina Kover

Translator

Durham

United Kingdom

Email:

tinakover@hotmail.com

Twitter/X:

@https://twitter.com/tinakover

Author's Bio

Tina Kover has been a literary translator for nearly twenty years, translating works of both classic and modern literature including Alexandre Dumas’s Georges, the Goncourt brothers’ Manette Salomon, and Mahir Guven’s Goncourt Prize-winning Older Brother. She studied French at the University of Denver and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and later worked in Prague teaching English as a foreign language. Her translation of Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental won the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the PEN Translation Prize.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

A Summer with Montaigne by Antoine Compagnon, translated from the French (Europa Editions, 2019)

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Older Brother by Mahir Guven, translated from the French (Europa Editions, 2019)

;

The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaïde Bon, translated from the French (Europa Editions, 2019)

;

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated from the French (Europa Editions, 2018)

;

Life, Only Better by Anna Gavalda, translated from the French (Europa Editions, 2015)

;

The Faces of God by Mallock, translated from the French (Europa Editions, 2015)

;

Hergé, Son of Tintin by Benoît Peeters, translated from the French (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)

;

Grand Junction by Maurice Dantec, translated from the French (Ballantine/Del Rey, 2009)

;

Cosmos Incorporated by Maurice Dantec, translated from the French (Ballantine/Del Rey, 2008)

;

Georges by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French (Modern Library, 2007)

;

The Black City by George Sand, translated from the French (Carroll & Graf, 2004)

Prizes won:

2019 Albertine Prize for Disoriental

2019 Lambda Literary Prize in Bisexual Fiction for Disoriental

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Vladimir Nabokov

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

British, European American, Feminist

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English, French

Born in:

Denver, CO

Colorado

Raised in:

Denver, CO

Colorado

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Last update: Jan 06, 2020