{{short description|American literary translator}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2018}} '''Tina Kover''' (born March 20, 1975, in Denver, Colorado, US) is a literary translator. She studied French at the University of Denver and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lithub.com/negar-djavadis-disoriental%e2%80%a8-wins-the-2019-albertine-prize-for-best-french-novel-published-in-the-u-s/|title=Négar Djavadi's Disoriental wins the 2019 Albertine Prize for best French novel published in the U.S.|date=2019-06-05|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-05}}</ref> and attended the Next Level Language Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. She holds a Master's Degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Durham University.
Her translation of Négar Djavadi's award-winning novel ''Disoriental'' was a finalist for the inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2018,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/2018-national-book-awards-finalists-announced/|title=The 2018 National Book Awards Finalists Announced|date=2018-10-10|website=National Book Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-05}}</ref> the PEN Translation Prize in 2019,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pen.org/2019finalists/|title=Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists|date=2019-01-15|website=PEN America|language=en|access-date=2020-01-05}}</ref> the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and the International Dublin Literary Award. ''Disoriental'' was awarded both the Albertine Prize<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.albertine.com/albertine-prize-2019/|title=ALBERTINE {{!}} Albertine Prize 2019|website=ALBERTINE|language=en|access-date=2020-01-05}}</ref> and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction in June 2019.
''Older Brother'' was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2020.
Her translation of Manette Salomon by the Goncourt Brothers won her a National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tina Kover |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/people/tina-kover/ |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=National Book Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>
Her translation of ''In the Shadow of the Fire'' was selected for a French Voices Award in 2020.
She is the co-founder, with Charlotte Coombe, of the YouTube channel ''Translators Aloud'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjaq9OSpoEeohPmK8ZT-C7w/|title=Translators Aloud|date=2020-01-10|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=2020-01-10}}</ref> which features literary translators reading from their own work. Contributors have included Jennifer Croft, Daniel Hahn, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Ros Schwartz, and Frank Wynne.
==List of translated works== ''The Bookshop of Forbidden Books'', Marc Levy, Firefinch, London, 2026<br> ''Symphony of Monsters'', Marc Levy, HarperVia, New York, 2026<br> ''Gabriële'', Anne Berest and Claire Berest, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2025<br> ''The Ogre's Daughter'', Catherine Bardon, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2024<br> ''Lenin Walked on the Moon'', Michel Eltchaninoff, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2023<br> ''The Postcard'', Anne Berest, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2023<br> ''Belle Greene: A Novel'', Alexandra Lapierre, Europa Editions, New York, 2022<br> ''Blue'', Emmelie Prophète, Amazon Crossing, Seattle, 2022<br> ''No Touching'', Ketty Rouf, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021<br> ''The Science of Middle-earth'', Lehoucq, Mangin, & Steyer, eds., Pegasus Books, New York, 2021<br> ''In the Shadow of the Fire'', Hervé le Corre, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021<br> ''A Beast in Paradise'', Cécile Coulon, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021<br> ''Paridaiza'', Luis de Miranda, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2020<br> ''Older Brother'', Mahir Guven, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2019<br> ''A Summer with Montaigne'', Antoine Compagnon, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2019<br> ''The Little Girl on the Ice Floe'', Adélaïde Bon, Europa Editions, New York, 2019<br> ''Disoriental'', Négar Djavadi, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2018<br> ''Manette Salomon'', Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017<br> ''The Beauty of the Death Cap'', Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017<br> ''Who Killed the Poet?'', Luis de Miranda, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017<br> ''Life, Only Better'', Anna Gavalda, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2015<br> ''The Faces of God'', Mallock, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2015<br> ''Herge: Son of Tintin'', Benoit Peeters, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2011<br> ''Venus'', Auguste Rodin, Hol Art Books, Tucson, 2010<br> ''Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters'', Jonathan Nossiter, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 2009<br> ''Grand Junction'', Maurice G. Dantec, Del Rey Books, New York, 2009<br> ''Cosmos Incorporated'', Maurice G. Dantec, Del Rey Books, New York, 2008<br> ''Georges'', Alexandre Dumas, Random House/Modern Library, New York, 2007<br> ''The Black City'', George Sand, Carroll & Graf/Avalon Publishing, New York, 2004<br>
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==External links== *[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/library/author.pperl?authorid=69945 Modern Library author page for Tina Kover] *[http://authors-translators.blogspot.com/2016/05/tina-kover-and-her-authors.html Tina Kover and her authors] *[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjaq9OSpoEeohPmK8ZT-C7w Translators Aloud on YouTube]
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