S5E5 - Charlotte Mandell on Mathias Enard's ‘The Deserters’ (Nominated for the International Booker Prize-2026)

Today’s Guest, Charlotte Mandell has translated over 50 books of fiction, poetry and philosophy from French. Her translations include works by Marcel Proust, Maurice Blanchot, Abdelwahab Meddeb and Jean-Luc Nancy. Her translation of Compass by Mathias Énard was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2017 and was the recipient of the 2018 ALTA National Translation Award in Prose. She was named a Chevalier (Knight) in the Order of Arts and Letters for her work by the French government and has received the Thornton Wilder Translation Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her translation of Mathias Énard’s 'The Desert...