Sandra Smith

Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City. As an undergraduate, she spent one year studying at the Sorbonne and fell in love with Paris. Immediately after finishing her BA, she was accepted to do a Master's Degree at New York University, in conjunction with the Sorbonne, and so lived in Paris for another year. After completing her MA, she moved to Cambridge, where she began supervising in 20th Century French Literature, Modern French Drama and Translation at the University. Soon afterwards, she was accepted to study for a PhD at Clare College, researching the Surrealist Theatre in France between the two World Wars. Sandra Smith taught French Literature and Language at Robinson College, University of Cambridge for many years and has been a guest lecturer and professor at Columbia University, Harvard and Sarah Lawrence College.

Literary/Translation Prizes for Suite Françoise:

Winner of the Pen Book of the Month Club Translation Prize (USA) 2006
Winner of the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize (USA) 2007
The Quill Award, USA, shortlisted for Book of the Year 2006, General Fiction category. (The only book in translation shortlisted.)
Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction 2006. Shortlisted.
Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction 2006. Shortlisted.
British Book Awards: Border's Book of the Year 2006. Shortlisted.
The Oxford Weidenfeld Prize for French Translation. Shortlisted.
Independent Newspaper Foreign Fiction Prize: only open to living authors, so ineligible, but awarded a 'Special Commendation' by the panel 19 January 2007.

Sandra Smith

Literary/Translation Prizes for Suite Françoise:

Winner of the Pen Book of the Month Club Translation Prize (USA) 2006
Winner of the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize (USA) 2007
The Quill Award, USA, shortlisted for Book of the Year 2006, General Fiction category. (The only book in translation shortlisted.)
Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction 2006. Shortlisted.
Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction 2006. Shortlisted.
British Book Awards: Border's Book of the Year 2006. Shortlisted.
The Oxford Weidenfeld Prize for French Translation. Shortlisted.
Independent Newspaper Foreign Fiction Prize: only open to living authors, so ineligible, but awarded a 'Special Commendation' by the panel 19 January 2007.

Books by Sandra Smith

The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
Guy de Maupassant, Sandra Smith
Paperback, 2016
From the best-selling translator of Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Française comes this bold new translation that reinterprets Guy de Maupassant’s best works for a new generation.
Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition
Guy de Maupassant, Sandra Smith, Robert Lethbridge
First Edition, Paperback, 2016
This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty of Guy de Maupassant’s best short stories centring on war, the supernatural and French life, with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.
The Prodigal Child
Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith
Hardback, 2021
A story of hope and inspiration that becomes torn in the hands of the cold and greedy, and of betrayal by the powerful over lesser ones.
The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
Guy de Maupassant, Sandra Smith
E Book, 2015
From the best-selling translator of Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Française comes this bold new translation that reinterprets Guy de Maupassant’s best works for a new generation.
Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition
Guy de Maupassant, Sandra Smith, Robert Lethbridge
First Edition, E Book, 2021
“Smith successfully captures Maupassant’s depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid...
The Prodigal Child
Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith
E Book, 2021
A story of hope and inspiration that becomes torn in the hands of the cold and greedy, and of betrayal by the powerful over lesser ones.
Master of Souls
Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith
Hardback, 2024
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a novel about ambition and greed set against the fabulously wealthy French aristocracy of the 1920s.
Master of Souls
Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith
E Book
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a novel about ambition and greed set against the fabulously wealthy French aristocracy of the 1920s.