Christine Donougher was born in England in 1954. Her translation of The Book of Nights won the 1992 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize and she has been shortlisted twice for The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Night of Amber in 1996 and for Magnus in 2009 both by Sylvie Germain.Her translations from Italian for Dedalus are Senso (and other stories) by Camillo Boito, Sparrow (and other stories) by Giovanni Verga, Cleopatra Goes To Prison by Claudia Durastanti, The Price of Dreams by Margherita Giacobino and Venice Noir by Isabella Panfido.
Autobiographical recounts the tortured 7 traumatic coming of age of Jean Mintie in 19th c France. Le Calvaire is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, which recounts the tortured and traumatic coming-of-age of the narrator Jean Mintie.
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