Noelle Michel Follow

Noëlle Michel is a translator and author. An engineer in biological engineering, she worked for ten years in wastewater treatment. Passionate about languages and literature, she became a freelance translator. Initially specializing in technical translation, she then developed her skills in literary translation. Noëlle lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.

Frank Wynne has translated over fifty works from French and Spanish by authors including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Ahmadou Kourouma, Tomás González, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte. During his career, his translations have earned him the IMPAC Prize for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and he has twice been awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation in 2008 and 2016 for Harraga by Boualem Sansal. He is a two-time winner of the Premio Valle Inclán, for Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras and for The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto. His translations have been awarded the CWA International Dagger in three consecutive years. He has spent time as translator in residence at the Villa Gillet in Lyons and at the Santa Maddalena Foundation.