Charlotte Mandell

A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Charlotte Mandell has translated over fifty books from the French, including works by Flaubert, Proust, and Genet. In 2001 she received a translation prize from the Modern Language Association for her translation of Faux Pas by Maurice Blanchot, in 2018 she won the National Translation Award in Prose for her translation of Compass by Mathias Énard, and in 2024 she received the Thornton Wilder Translation Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, the poet Robert Kelly.

Charlotte Mandell

A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Charlotte Mandell has translated over fifty books from the French, including works by Flaubert, Proust, and Genet. In 2001 she received a translation prize from the Modern Language Association for her translation of Faux Pas by Maurice Blanchot, in 2018 she won the National Translation Award in Prose for her translation of Compass by Mathias Énard, and in 2024 she received the Thornton Wilder Translation Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, the poet Robert Kelly.

Books by Charlotte Mandell

  • Compass

    Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell

    Paperback, 2018

    Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic world
  • Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

    Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell

    Hardback, 2018

    Financial Times Book of the Year

    An adventure of Michelangelo in Constantinople from the “mesmerizing” (New Yorker) and “masterful” (Washington Post) author of Compass

  • Compass

    Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell

    E Book, 2018

    Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic world
  • Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

    Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell

    E Book, 2019

    Michelangelo’s adventure in Constantinople, from the “mesmerizing” (New Yorker) and “masterful” (Washington Post) author ofCompass
  • War

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Charlotte Mandell

    Paperback, 2024

    In an incredible turn of events, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, as if declaiming from his grave, thunders back to life: that inimitable, scorching, and monstrously powerful voice roars at us a new in this...
  • War

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Charlotte Mandell

    E Book

    In an incredible turn of events, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, as if declaiming from his grave, thunders back to life: that inimitable, scorching, and monstrously powerful voice roars at us a new in this...
  • The Deserters

    Mathias Enard, Charlotte Mandell

    Paperback, 2025

    From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an epic, furious novel that shows the dangers of ideology and the aftermath of war
  • The Deserters

    Mathias Enard, Charlotte Mandell

    E Book, 2025

    From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an epic, furious novel that shows the dangers of ideology and the aftermath of war