A Respectable Occupation by Julia Kerninon

He is the co-author, with Jack Hoffman, of Run Run Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman and translator of Van Gogh: Self Portraits by Pascal Bonafoux. He is also a regular contributor to The Nation magazine.In my family, no one had ever earned enough money to have any faith in it, so they didn’t believe in money, they believed in travel, poetry, material simplicity, they believed that literature was a respectable occupation.Ī Respectable Occupation is the translation by Ruth Diver of French novelist Julia Kerninon’s une activité respectable (2017). Her translation of Maraudes by Sophie Pujas won the 2016 Asymptote Close Approximations Fiction Prize.ĭan Simon is the founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press. Ruth Diver has translated works by several of France's leading contemporary novelists, including The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaïde Bon, The Revolt by Clara Dupont-Monod, and A Respectable Occupation by Julia Kerninon. Arcadia, her first book in translation, won the Prix du Livre Inter was shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Médicis, and Prix de Flore and longlisted for the Prix France-Culture and Prix Wepler. She is a founding member of the interdisciplinary association Autres et Pareils and co-director of Éditions Contre-Pied. She has published twelve novels and two plays with P.O.L Editeur, three, under the pseudonym Rebecca Lighieri.

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Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for a virtual event with author Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam and translator Ruth Diver to discuss Arcadia. This event will take place virtually on Zoom.