Chris Clarke is a literary translator and scholar. He currently teaches in the Translation Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. His translations from French and Spanish include books by Raymond Queneau, Pierre Mac Orlan, Éric Chevillard, and Julio Cortázar, among others. He was awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for fiction in 2019 for his translation of Marcel Schwob’s Imaginary Lives, a prize for which he was also a finalist in 2017 for his translation of Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s In the Café of Lost Youth, published by NYRB Classics.
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Translations
Exercises in Style: 65th Anniversary Edition
Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau
English · New Directions · 2012
In the Café of Lost Youth
Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue by Patrick Modiano
English · NYRB · 2016
The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster
L'œuvre posthume de Thomas Pilaster by Éric Chevillard
English · Sublunary Editions · 2021
Wind Drinkers
Buveurs de vent by Franck Bouysse
English · Other Press · 2023
The Skin of Dreams
Loin de Rueil by Raymond Queneau
English · NYRB · 2024