Frances Frenaye

American translator (1908–1996)

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.^[1]

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