Dominique Mainard

{{Short description|French translator and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Use British English|date=March 2021}} '''Dominique Mainard''' is a French translator of English novels, short story writer and novelist. She was born in Paris, France, in 1967 and grew up in the region of Lyon, and spent five years in the United States. She won the 2009 Prix des Libraires (Booksellers Prize) for her novel ''Pour vous'' (''For You'').<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prix-litteraires.net/prix/47,prix-des-libraires.html |title=Prix des Libraires |publisher=Prix Littéraires |language=French |access-date=22 June 2011}}</ref> Mainard spent 2005 - 2006 as a resident of the Randell Cottage Writers' Trust in Wellington, New Zealand.<ref name="EmbFr"/> Her book ''Leur histoire'' was adapted for the 2005 film ''Les Mots bleus'' by director Alain Corneau with actors Sergi López and Sylvie Testud.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0417071/combined |title=Les mots bleus |publisher=IMDB |access-date=22 June 2011 |archive-date=25 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025001059/http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0417071/combined |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Works==

;Translations

English novels, including authors John Cheever and Janet Frame

;Collections of short stories

*''Le Grenadier'' (1997), Gallimard *''La Maison des fatigués'' Editions Joëlle Losfeld *''Le Second Enfant''. Prix Prométhée de la nouvelle (Prometheus Prize for Novels)<ref name="EmbFr">{{cite web |url=http://www.ambafrance-nz.org/spip.php?article665 |title=Dominique Mainard, 2005-2006 |publisher=Embassy of France in Wellington, New Zealand |access-date=22 June 2011}}</ref> <ref name="RCWT"/>

;Novels *''Le Grand Fakir'' (2001), EditionsJoelle Losfeld *''Leur histoire'' (2002), Joëlle Losfeld editions. Fnac Novel Prize and Alain-Fournier Prize.<ref name="EmbFr"/><ref name="RCWT">{{cite web |url=http://www.randellcottage.co.nz/?page_id=39 |title=Randell Cottage Writers Trust |access-date=22 June 2011}}</ref>

*''Le Ciel des chevaux'' (2004), Editions Joelle Losfeld *''Je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes'' (2007), Joëlle Losfeld editions. France Culture Book Award - Télérama 2007. There is an Italian translation by [http://www.edizionisaecula.it Edizioni Saecula] *''Pour vous'' (2008), Joëlle Losfeld editions. Booksellers Award 2009.

;Novella *''La Vie en rose'' (2007), Éditions du Chemin de fer

;Youth *''Ma vie en 17 pieds'' (2008), L'École des loisirs

==References== {{Reflist}}

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