Fiction

So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron

Item: So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood
Author: Phoebe Weston-evans

by Phoebe Weston-Evans •

September 2017, no. 394

Quercus, $19.99 pb, 155 pp, 9780857054999

Fiction

So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron

by Phoebe Weston-Evans •

September 2017, no. 394

Patrick Modiano’s most recent novel, published just before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2014, is his twenty-sixth to date, though one of a great number to arrive almost all at once in the English-speaking world. In the post-Nobel flurry to translate Modiano into English, the past two years have marked a shift in the author’s status from practically unknown to international renown.

Phoebe Weston-Evans

Phoebe Weston-Evans is a translator and doctoral student currently living in Paris. She is researching the works of French novelist Patrick Modiano. Her English translation of Modiano’s Paris Nocturne, published by Yale University Press and Text Publishing, was nominated for the 2016 PEN America Translation Prize and shortlisted for the 2016 Australian Academy of Humanities Translation Medal. Phoebe has published with French Cultural Studies and is associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal The French Australian Review.