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Linda Coverdale

Translator LINDA COVERDALE holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from the Johns Hopkins University and has translated over seventy books. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, she has won the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize in both 1997 and 2008. She lives in Brooklyn.

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