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Laurence Moscato

Laurence Moscato is a professor of translation studies in California and a literary translator working from French into English. Her English translation of Jean-Michel Olivier's Prix Dentan-winning L'Enfant secret, published as The Secret Child (Skomlin, 2018) with a preface by the scholar Clorinda Donato, was praised for its deft rendering of the author's lyrical prose.

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Front cover of The Secret Child
The Secret Child
Jean-Michel Olivier

Winner of the Swiss Prix Dentan, Jean-Michel Olivier's novel is a haunting excavation of the secrets we inherit in our DNA - the hidden deeds of ancestors we glimpse only through a distant cousin's confession or a box of old photographs. Set in Trieste as the city passes from Austrian to Italian hands after the First World War, it moves among cameo appearances by James and Nora Joyce, Ezra Pound and Vladimir Nabokov.