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Ruth Diver

Ruth Diver is an award-winning literary translator and the former head of comparative literature at the University of Auckland, where she also taught French and Russian. She is the author of Enfant Russes, Écrivains Français, and has published research on translingual authors in Roman 20-50, Europe and Revue des lettres modernes. She won the Asymptote Close Approximations Fiction Prize in 2016 for her translation of Maraudes by Sophie Pujas and has since published over a dozen full-length translations, including The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaïde Bon (shortlisted for the UK Translators Association Debut Translation Prize) and A History of the Big House by Charif Majdalani (shortlisted for the French-American Translation Prize). Extracts from her translations have appeared in Granta, Tripwire and Guernica. She lives in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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