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Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer. Born in Co. Sligo, Ireland, he worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at Deadline magazine . He worked for a time at AOL before becoming a literary translator. He has translated many authors including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder and the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. He jointly won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award with Houellebecq for ''Atomised'', his translation of ''Les Particules élémentaires''. His translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's ''Windows on the World'', a novel set in the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York during the September 11, 2001 attacks, won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He has also won the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for translation from the French and the 2012 Premio Valle Inclán for Spanish Translation. His book, ''I Was Vermeer'', a biography of Han van Meegeren was published by Bloomsbury in August 2006 and serialised as the BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" (read by Anton Lesser) in August 2006. ==Selected translations== * ''Atomised'' by Michel Houellebecq * ''Platform'' by Michel Houellebecq (adapted by Carnal Acts for the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)) * ''Lanzarote'' by Michel Houellebecq * ''The Patagonian Hare : A Memoir'' by Claude Lanzmann (shortlisted for the 2013 French-American Florence Gould Translation Prize) * ''An Unfinished Business'' (published in the US as ''The German Mudjahid'') by Boualem Sansal * ''The Frozen Heart'' by Almudena Grandes * ''The Blue Hour'' by Alonso Cueto (shortlisted for the 2013 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize) * ''What the Day Owes the Night'' by Yasmina Khadra * ''Kamchatka'' by Marcelo Figueras * ''Journey to the Centre of the Earth'' by Jules Verne * ''Windows on the World'' by Frédéric Beigbeder * ''Mammals'' by Pierre Mérot * ''Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote'' by Ahmadou Kourouma * ''Allah is Not Obliged'' by Ahmadou Kourouma * ''The Little Book of Philosophy'' by André Comte-Sponville * ''Working Knowledge'' by Petr Král * ''Forever Nude'' by Guy Goffette * ''Banquet of Lies'' by Amin Zaoui * ''Somewhere in a Desert'' by Dominique Sigaud (a ''New York Times'' notable book) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Wynne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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