Sandra Smith

Translator from French to English
Translator
Available for:
Collaboration, Editing, Lecturing and teaching, Library visits, Live readings and performances, Mentoring, Proofreading, Translation, Workshops
Translates from:
French
Translates to:
English
Available for (translation):
Children's books, Crime fiction, Graphic novels, Literary fiction, Narrative non-fiction

Published translations

Suite française, Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, UK, Knopf/Vintage 2006

David Golder, Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, UK, Knopf/Vintage 2007

Chaleur du sang, (Fire in the Blood), Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, Knopf/Vintage UK, 2007

Le Bal and Les Mouches d’automne (Snow in Autumn), Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, UK, Knopf/Vintage 2007

A Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite française, (Contributor) Five Ties, New York, 2008

L’Affaire Courilof (The Courilof Affair), Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, UK, Knopf/Vintage 2008

Les Biens de ce monde (All Our Worldly Goods), Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, UK, Knopf/Vintage 2008

Les Chiens et les loups (The Dogs and the Wolves), Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, UK 2009

La Vie d’ Irène Némirovsky (The Life of Irène Némirovsky), Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt, trans. by Euan Cameron (Contributor), Chatto & Windus, 2010

Jezebel, Irène Némirovsky, Vintage, UK, Alfred A. Knopf, USA, 2010

The Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski, (Contributor), Penguin UK, 2011

Le Vin de Solitude (The Wine of Solitude), Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, Vintage, UK, Alfred A. Knopf, USA 2011

L’Amour éternal, Eiffel (film script for Manuel Munz, Paris), 2011

L’Étranger (The Outsider), Albert Camus, Penguin UK, 2012

Le Malentendu, (The Misunderstanding), Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, UK, 2012

Les feux d’automne (The Fires of Autumn), Irène Némirovsky, Chatto & Windus, UK, 2014; Knopf/Vintage, USA, 2015

L’Esprit en fête (A Taste for Happiness), Michel David-Weil, CreateSpace, 2015

The Necklace and Other stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, Liveright, USA, 2015; Norton Critical Edition, 2016

Et tu n’es pas revenue (But you did not come back) by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Grove Atlantic, USA, 2016

Les Gens heureux lisent et boivent du café (Happy People Read and Drink Coffee) by Agnès Martin-Lugand, Weinstein Books, USA 2016

L’Etranger (The Stranger), by Albert Camus, adapted as a graphic novel by Jacques Ferrandez, Pegasus, USA, 2016

Une affaire de chien (The Dangerous Dog) a short story by Netonon Noel Ndkekery, in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, USA 2016

Une Vendetta (A Vendetta) a short story by Guy de Maupassant, in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, USA 2016

Pocahontas a Graphic Novel by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky, Pegasus, USA, 2016

Chéri, je vais à Charlie (Darling, I’m Going to Charlie) by Maryse Wolinski, Atria, USA, 2017 (Under pseudonym of H.J. Stone)

La Vie Facile (Don’t Worry, Life is Easy) by Agnès Martin-Lugand, Weinstein Books, USA, 2017

Music and Literature Magazine: Articles on Eric Chevillard: Introduction by Olivier Bessard-Banquy and Pierre Jourde, and Chevillard Lecteur by Anne Roche, 2017

A Very French Christmas, (Contributor) “Noël” by Irène Némirovsky, New Vessel Press, USA, October 2017

Jacques Schiffrin: A Publisher in Exile by Amos Reichman, Columbia Univ. Press, 2019

Found in Translation, (Contributor) We Once Were Happy by Irène Némirovsky, Apollo, UK 2018

The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter (Contributor) “Noël” by Irène Némirovsky, Penguin Classics, 2019

Create Dangerously by Albert Camus, Knopf/Vintage, 2019

Alice Asks the Big Questions, (published in French under the title: Et tu trouveras le trésor qui dort en toi) by Laurent Gounelle, Little Brown, 2020

Appeal to Doctors Fighting the Plague (Exhortation aux médecins) by Albert Camus, The Times of London, 2020

From Chicago to New Orleans by Philippe Besson, (Contributor) in America, edited by

F. Busnel, Grove Atlantic, 2020

Sigrand et Sip’tit by Jacques Lederer; The Hudson Review, Spring Issue 2021

Les Inséparables (Inseparable) by Simone de Beauvoir, Ecco Publications, 2021

L’Enfant génial (The Prodigal Child) by Irène Némirovsky, Kales Press, 2021

La Rafle des Notables (In the Shadow of Paris) by Anne Sinclair, Kales Press, 2021

Le Maître des Âmes (Master of Souls) by Irène Némirovsky, Kales Press, 2022

Forthcoming Publications

Albert Camus – Maria Casarès Correspondence 1944 – 1959, Knopf, 2025

Literary/Translation Prizes for Suite française

Winner: Independent British Booksellers Book of the Year 2006; The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for a full-length work translated from any language into English) 2007; The French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize (Fiction category) 2007; Independent Newspaper Foreign Fiction Prize: only open to living authors, so ineligible, but awarded a ‘Special Commendation’ by the panel, 19 January 200; Winner: Book of the Year, The Times of London, 16 December 2006

Shortlisted: Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction 2006;British Book Awards: Border’s Book of the Year 2006; The Oxford Weidenfeld Prize for French Translation 2006; The Quill Award, USA, Book of the Year 2006, General Fiction category. (The only book in translation shortlisted.)

But you did not come back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Winner: 2016 Jewish Book Awards: Biography/Autobiography/Memoire category

La Rafle des Notables (In the Shadow of Paris) by Anne Sinclair, 

Finalist: 2021 Jewish Book Awards: Biography/Autobiography/Memoire category

Les Inséparables (Inseparable) by Simone de Beauvoir

Finalist: The French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize (Fiction category) 2022

Dramatizations of Translations (BBC Radio)

Suite Française (Némirovsky) – 2007; Fire in the Blood (Némirovsky) – 2009; David Golder (Némirovsky) – 2011; The Outsider (Camus) – 2013; But You did not come back (Loridan-Ivens) – 2016; Jezebel (Némirovsky) – 2016 and 2021; The Misunderstanding (Némirovsky) – 2019

Movies

Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky)

English language and French language movie released in 2015