Dominique Mainard is a French translator of English novels, short story writer and novelist. She was born in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France in 1967 and grew up in the region of Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

, and spent five years in the United States. She won the 2009 Prix des Libraires (Booksellers Prize) for her novel Pour vous. Mainard spent 2005 - 2006 as a resident of the Randell Cottage Writers' Trust in Wellington, New Zealand. Her book Leur histoire was adapted for the 2005 film Les Mots bleus by director Alain Corneau

Alain Corneau

Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer.Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his...

  with actors Sergi López

Sergi López

Sergi López i Ayats is a Spanish actor.-Early life:Sergi López was initiated in theater in representations of typical Catalan nativity plays called Els Pastorets, in his native city. He started to study theater in Barcelona but completed his studies in France, in the school of Jacques Lecoq...

 and Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud is a French actress, writer and director. Her film career began in 1991. She was later highly acclaimed, and has twice won César Awards.-Biography:...

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Works

Translations

English novels, including authors John Cheever

John Cheever

John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,...

 and Janet Frame

Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful...

Collections of short stories

• Le Grenadier (1997), Gallimard
• La Maison des fatigués Editions Joëlle Losfeld
• Le Second Enfant. Prix Prométhée de la nouvelle (Prometheus Prize for Novels)

Novels

• Le Grand Fakir (2001), EditionsJoelle Losfeld
• Leur histoire (2002), Joëlle Losfeld editions. Fnac Novel Prize and Alain-Fournier Prize.

• Le Ciel des chevaux (2004), Editions Joelle Losfeld
• Je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes (2007), Joëlle Losfeld editions. France Culture Book Award - Télérama 2007.
• Pour vous (2008), Joëlle Losfeld editions. Booksellers Award 2009.

Novella
La Vie en rose (2007), Éditions du Chemin de fer

Youth

• Ma vie en 17 pieds (2008), L'École des loisirs