Annie Saumont

Annie Saumont (born 1927) is a French short story writer and English to French translator.

Saumont started as a specialist in English literature and an English to French translator. She has translated books by V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and John Fowles among others.

Saumont is best known for her short stories, however. She has been writing short stories for twenty years and now has some 200 to her name.[1] She has won a number of prizes for her work including the 1981 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for Quelquefois dans les cérémonies, the 1989 SGDL Short Story prize for Je suis pas un camion, and the 1993 Renaissance Short Story Prize for Les voilà quel bonheur.

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Short Stories

English to French Translations

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