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2007 Nominated

The Girl from the Chartreuse

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

One wet afternoon, Étienne Vollard, driving a vanload of books to his shop, knocks down a little girl, Éva.
Haunted by guilt, Vollard visits Éva in hospital and reads stories to her while she lies in a coma.He also meets Éva’s mother, Thérèse, a struggling single parent whose dream is to be faraway, alone. When Éva awakes, the three of them are immediately aware that their lives are forever altered.Pierre Péju’s profound and moving novel is about life, childhood, loneliness and learning to accept and understand our differences.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Pierre
Péju

Pierre Peju, writer, philosopher and director of studies at the International College of Philosophy, has written several books. The Girl from the Chartreuse met with an exceptional critical and commercial success in France.

Pierre Peju, writer, philosopher and director of studies at the International College of Philosophy, has written several books. The Girl from the Chartreuse met with an exceptional critical and commercial success in France.

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Ina
Rilke

Ina Rilke is a Mozambique-born translator who specializes in translating Dutch literature and French literature into English.

Born in Mozambique, she went to school in Porto in Portugal, attending Oporto British School. She studied translation at the University of Amsterdam, where she later taught.

Writers she has translated include Hafid Bouazza, Louis Couperus, Hella Haasse, W. F. Hermans, Arthur Japin, Erwin Mortier, Multatuli, Cees Nooteboom, Connie Palmen, Pierre Péju and Dai Sijie. Rilke has won the Vondel Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Flemish Culture Prize. She has also been nominated for the Best Translated Book Award, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the IMPAC Book Award.

Ina Rilke is a Mozambique-born translator who specializes in translating Dutch literature and French literature into English.

Born in Mozambique, she went to school in Porto in Portugal, attending Oporto British School. She studied translation at the University of Amsterdam, where she later taught.

Writers she has translated include Hafid Bouazza, Louis Couperus, Hella Haasse, W. F. Hermans, Arthur Japin, Erwin Mortier, Multatuli, Cees Nooteboom, Connie Palmen, Pierre Péju and Dai Sijie. Rilke has won the Vondel Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Flemish Culture Prize. She has also been nominated for the Best Translated Book Award, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the IMPAC Book Award.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
France
Original Language
French
Author
Publisher
Harvill Press
Translator
Ina Rilke

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