Sandra Smith is a translator that has has published over forty translations, including Suite Française and twelve 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), and In the Shadow of Paris (Anne Sinclair), among others. The translation of Mon cher amour, the letters between Albert Camus and Maria Casarès that she co-translated with Cory Stockwell, will be published by Knopf in April 2026. Smith has won the French American Translation Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, the Independent British Booksellers Book of the Year Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. She taught at Cambridge University for many years before returning to the US. She currently teaches at NYU and is co-chair of the PEN America Translation Committee.
