Frances Frenaye Explained
Frances Frenaye (1908 – April 1996) was an American translator of French and Italian literature.[1] She translated work by writers including Giovanni Guareschi, Balzac, Carlo Levi, Ignazio Silone, and Elie Wiesel.
Born in Lawrence, Long Island, Frenaye attended the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and went on to graduate from Bryn Mawr College in 1930, after which she went to Europe for six years.
Works
- Natalia Ginzburg: The Road to the City (Ital.: La strada che va in città), 1942
- Ignazio Silone: The Seed Beneath the Snow (Ital.: Il seme sotto la neve), 1943
- Natalia Ginzburg: The Dry Heart (Ital.: È stato così), 1947
- Carlo Levi: Christ Stopped at Eboli (Ital.: Cristo si è fermato a Eboli), London, Cassell, 1948.
- Giovannino Guareschi: Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son (Ital.: Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e il suo gregge), Victor Gollancz, 1952
- Riccardo Bacchelli: The Mill on the Po (Ital.: Il mulino del Po), 1952
- Alberto Moravia: Bitter Honeymoon (Ital.: Luna di miele, sole di fiele), 1954
- Giovannino Guareschi: Don Camillo's Dilemma (Ital.: Il dilemma di Don Camillo), Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1954
- Anna Maria Ortese: The Bay is Not Naples (Ital.: Il mare non bagna Napoli), 1955
- Honoré de Balzac: César Birotteau, (Fr.: Histoire de la Grandeur et de la Décadence de César Birotteau), 1956
- Giovannino Guareschi: Don Camillo and the Devil (Ital.: Don Camillo e il diavolo), Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957
- Françoise Sagan: Those Without Shadows (Fr.: Dans un mois, dans un an), 1957
- Daria Olivier: The Snows of December (Fr.: Les Neiges de décembre), 1959
- Elie Wiesel: Dawn (Fr.: L'aube), Hill and Wang, 1961
- Armand Lanoux: Rendezvous at Bruges (Fr.: Le Rendezvous de Bruges), 1961
- Dacia Maraini: The Age of Discontent (Ital.: L'età del malessere), 1963
- Giovannino Guareschi: Comrade Don Camillo (Ital.: Il compagno Don Camillo), Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1964
- Elie Wiesel: The Gates of the Forest (Fr.: Le Portes del la forêt), Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966
- Elio Vittorini: Women of Messina (Ital.: Le donne di Messina), 1973
- Giuseppe Dessì: The forests of Norbio (Ital.: Paese d'ombre: Romanzo), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975: winner of the 1976 John Florio Prize
- Antonio Tabucchi: Little Misunderstandings of No Importance (Ital.: Piccoli equivoci senza importanza), 1985
Notes and References
- Eric Pace, "Frances Frenaye is Dead at 88; Translated European Literature", The New York Times, April 15, 1998.
