Josée Kamoun
From 23 January to 28 February 2023

Born in 1951 in Tunis to a Sicilian father and a Parisian mother, the literary translator Josée Kamoun earned an initial agrégation degree in English, a licence in social anthropology, and her PhD in literature. In 1985, she was awarded the Prix Grevisse for her French translation of Stephen Marlow’s novel The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus. Since then she has translated over fifty books, including numerous novels by John Irving, Philip Roth, Jonathan Coe, and Richard Ford. She is especially known for her translation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road - the Original Scroll, and a new French version of George Orwell’s 1984. At the same time, she teaches English in France and French in the United States.