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, in 2024 she received the Thornton Wilder Translation Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2026 she received the French American Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of The Deserters by Mathias Énard. 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, in 2024 she received the Thornton Wilder Translation Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2026 she received the French American Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of The Deserters by Mathias Énard. 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 YearAn 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
Perfecting the Shot
Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell
Paperback, 2026
Mathias Enard's first novel, finally in English, is a ruthless demonstration of how violence corrupts the soul
London
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Charlotte Mandell
Paperback, 2026
The miraculous, long-lost final installment of the Death on the Installment Plan trilogy: London is the last key work of the legendary Louis-Ferdinand Céline


