Jordan Stump, professor of French, won the 2020 National Translation Award in Prose from the American Literary Translators Association for his translation of “The Cheffe: A Cook’s Novel,” by Marie NDiaye. The award is the only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.
About The Cheffe (from penguinrandomhouse.com):
Continuing her tradition of writing provocative fiction about fascinating women, here Marie NDiaye gives us the story of a Great Female Chef–a chef who was celebrated as one of the best in a world where men dominate, and the way that her pursuit of love, pleasure, and gustatory delights helped shape her life and career. Told from the perspective of her former assistant (and unrequited lover), now an aged chef himself, here is the story of a woman’s quest to the front of the kitchen–and the extraordinary journey she takes along the way.
Find out more about Dr. Stump here: https://modlang.unl.edu/dr-jordan-stump
