The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile – The Night Watch – Ring Roads

A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATOR

Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations from the French, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Windows on the World by Frederic Beigbeder. He is also the translator from the Spanish of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Purgatory, Miguel Figueras’s Kamchatka and Carlos Acosta’s Pig’s Foot. In 2014 he was awarded the Valle Inclán Prize for his translation of Alonso Cueto’s The Blue Hour.