Chicago: Translating Marie NDiaye with Jordan Stump

Jordan Stump is a Professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; he has translated some thirty works of (mostly) contemporary French fiction, by such writers as Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, and Scholastique Mukasonga, as well as seven works by Marie NDiaye, including the forthcoming Vengeance Is Mine.  His translation of her The Cheffe was awarded the annual translation prize for fiction by the American Literary Translators’ Association.