Sandra Smith has published over forty translations, including Suite Française and 12 other novels by Irène Némirovsky, But You Did Not Come Back (Marceline Loridan-Ivens), The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, The Outsider (Albert Camus), Inseparable (Simone de Beauvoir), In the Shadow of Paris (Anne Sinclair), among others. Smith has won the French American Translation Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, the Independent British Booksellers Book of the Year and the National Jewish Book Award. She taught at Cambridge University for many years before returning to the US. She is currently Co-chair of the PEN America Translation Committee.
