Last night, in the gilded reception room of the French Embassy, Négar Djavadi and her translator Tina Kover accepted the Albertine Prize for Disoriental, published by Europa Editions. From a shortlist of five novels published within the last year, readers had voted to give the award to Djavadi’s first novel, the tale of a young…
It was wonderful to celebrate the launch of the Albertine Prize last night, a new readers’ prize for French fiction published in English translation in 2016, and to discover the shortlist of 10 books. The event was rescheduled from March 14 due to the blizzard, and although there were still mountains of snow in the streets,…