Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer.
Born in Co. Sligo, Ireland, he worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at Deadline magazine . He worked for a time at AOL before becoming a literary translator. He has translated many authors including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder and the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. He jointly won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award with Houellebecq for Atomised, his translation of Les Particules élémentaires. His translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World, a novel set in the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York during the September 11, 2001 attacks, won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He also won the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize.
His book, I Was Vermeer, a biography of Han van Meegeren was published by Bloomsbury in August 2006 and serialised as the BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" (read by Anton Lesser) in August 2006.
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[edit] Selected translations
- Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
- Platform by Michel Houellebecq (adapted by Carnal Acts for the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA))
- Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
- The Patagonian Hare : A Memoir by Claude Lanzmann
- An Unfinished Business (published in the US as The German Mudjahid) by Boualem Sansal
- The Frozen Heart by Almudena Grandes
- What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
- Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Windows on the World by Frédéric Beigbeder
- Mammals by Pierre Mérot
- Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma
- Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma
- The Little Book of Philosophy by André Comte-Sponville
- Working Knowledge by Petr Král
- Forever Nude by Guy Goffette
- Banquet of Lies by Amin Zaoui
- Somewhere in a Desert by Dominique Sigaud (a New York Times notable book)
[edit] Awards
- 2012: Winner of the Premio Valle-Inclán for the translation of Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras[1]
- 2012: Runner up for the Scott Moncrieff Prize for the translation of An Unfinished Business' by Boualem Sansal[1]
- 2008: Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for the translation of Holiday in a Coma and Love Lasts Three Years by Frédéric Beigbeder [2]
- 2005: Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Windows on the World by Frédéric Beigbeger
- 2002: Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Atomised' by Michel Houellebecq
