Beside the Sea (9 page)
Authors: Veronique Olmi
AUTHOR
Véronique Olmi was born in 1962 in Nice and now lives in Paris. She is a highly acclaimed French dramatist and her twelve plays have won numerous awards.
Bord de Mer
, published in 2001 and translated into all major European languages, was her first novel. In Germany alone her books have sold more than a hundred thousand copies.
TRANSLATOR
Adriana Hunter has translated nearly 40 books from French including works by Agnès Desarthe, Amélie Nothomb, Frédéric Beigbeder, Véronique Ovaldé and Catherine Millet and has been short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice. In 2012, Adriana was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Award for her translation of Beside the Sea.
First published in English in 2010
by Peirene Press, 17 Cheverton Road, London, N19 3BB
www.peirenepress.com
This ebook edition first published in 2012.
Originally published in French as BORD DE MER
Copyright © Véronique Olmi / Actes Sud 2001
This translation © Adriana Hunter, 2010
This work has been translated with the financial support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the Burgess programme run by the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in London (www.frenchbooknews.com)
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ISBN 978–1–9086700–7–6
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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