Africa39 (56 page)

Frank Wynne
has won three major prizes for his translations, including the 2002 IMPAC for 
Atomised
 by Michel Houellebecq and the
Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize
.
 He is also the translator of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s 
Purgatory
, Marcelo Figueras’s
Kamchatka
 and Carlos Acosta’s 
Pig’s Foot
.

Other Hay Festival Projects

Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World

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