Carole Martinez Author

Carole Martinez is the award-winning author of The Castle of Whispers (Europa, 2014) and The Threads of the Heart (Europa, 2013), among others. Known for her lyrical voice and imaginative scope, Martinez has garnered critical acclaim and major literary recognition in France, including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Dream Your Animal Dreams is her fifth novel. She lives in France. Adriana Hunter is known for translating over 100 French novels, such as Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb or The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa. She has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice. In 2011 she won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Véronique Olmi's Beside the Sea. In 2013, she won the 27th Annual Translation Prize founded by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation for her translation of Electrico W by Hervé Le Tellier (2013). In 2017, she became the English translator for new comic albums in the Asterix series.