# Dominique Mainard

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{{Short description|French translator and writer}}
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'''Dominique Mainard''' is a French translator of English novels, short story writer and novelist. She was born in [Paris](/source/Paris), France, in 1967 and grew up in the region of [Lyon](/source/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](/source/Randell_Cottage_Writers'_Residency) in Wellington, New Zealand.<ref name="EmbFr"/> Her book ''Leur histoire'' was adapted for the 2005 film  ''[Les Mots bleus](/source/Les_Mots_bleus)'' by  director [Alain Corneau](/source/Alain_Corneau)  with actors [Sergi López](/source/Sergi_L%C3%B3pez_i_Ayats) and [Sylvie Testud](/source/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](/source/John_Cheever) and [Janet Frame](/source/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==
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