Frank Wynne is a writer and award-winning literary translator. Born in Ireland he has lived and worked in Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires and currently lives in San José, Costa Rica. He has translated more than a dozen major novels, among them the works of Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Pierre Mérot and the Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. A journalist and broadcaster, he has written for the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Irish Times, Melody Maker, and Time Out.
10 Ebooks de Wynne Frank Wynne
Carlos Acosta: Pig’s Foot
______________________’Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling … The pace leaves you breathless’ – Kate Saunders, The Times’Elegant and seductive’ – Guardian’Spellbinding … Acosta does for prose wh …
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Wynne Frank Wynne: I Was Vermeer
Frank Wynne’s remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world. During van Meeg …
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Acosta Carlos Acosta: Pig’s Foot
The Korticos are from a well-endowed pygmy tribe in West Africa; the Mandingas are descended from a tribe of tall Ghanaians. Both families have been brought to Cuba as slaves. Oscar Kortico and Jose …
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€19.50
Sansal Boualem Sansal: Harraga
Harraga. The term means "to burn, " and it refers to those Algerians in exile, who burn their identity papers to seek asylum in Europe. But for Boualem Sansal, whose novels are banned in hi …
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€10.26
Modiano Patrick Modiano: La Place de l’Etoile
Modiano’s debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphael Schlemilovitch, a young Jewi …
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€13.30
Frank Wynne: Found in Translation
‘Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence’ George Steiner. It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No culture e …
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€22.56
Patrick Modiano: La Place de l’ toile
The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation’A Marcel Proust of our time’ Peter Englund, permanent …
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€13.40
Boualem Sansal: Harraga
____________________’This is a remarkable novel … and a remarkably brave one. It is compelling and gripping. The horrors of man’s inhumanity to man are presented unblinkingly’ – Scotsman’Demotic cl …
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€10.28
Mas Victoria Mas: Mad Women’s Ball
A New York Times best historical novel of the year, adapted as a major film for Amazon Prime, this feminist literary thriller is set in Paris’s infamous Salpetriere asylum-now in paperback The Salpet …
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€24.48
Frank Wynne: Queer
LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to shar …
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