Frances Frenaye
Frances Frenaye was an American translator of French and Italian literature. She translated work by writers including Giovanni Guareschi, Balzac, Carlo Levi, Ignazio Silone, and Elie Wiesel.
Born in Lawrence, Long Island, Frenaye attended the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and went on to graduate from Bryn Mawr College in 1930, after which she went to Europe for six years.
Works
- Natalia Ginzburg: The Road to the City, 1942
- Ignazio Silone: The Seed Beneath the Snow, 1943
- Natalia Ginzburg: The Dry Heart, 1947
- Carlo Levi: Christ Stopped at Eboli, London, Cassell, 1948.
- Giovannino Guareschi: Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son, Victor Gollancz, 1952
- Riccardo Bacchelli: The Mill on the Po, 1952
- Alberto Moravia: Bitter Honeymoon, 1954
- Giovannino Guareschi: Don Camillo's Dilemma, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1954
- Anna Maria Ortese: The Bay is Not Naples, 1955
- Honoré de Balzac: César Birotteau,, 1956
- Giovannino Guareschi: Don Camillo and the Devil, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957
- Françoise Sagan: Those Without Shadows, 1957
- Daria Olivier: The Snows of December, 1959
- Elie Wiesel: Dawn, Hill and Wang, 1961
- Armand Lanoux: Rendezvous at Bruges, 1961
- Dacia Maraini: The Age of Discontent, 1963
- Giovannino Guareschi: Comrade Don Camillo, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1964
- Elie Wiesel: The Gates of the Forest, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966
- Elio Vittorini: Women of Messina, 1973
- Giuseppe Dessì: The forests of Norbio, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975: winner of the 1976 John Florio Prize
- Antonio Tabucchi: Little Misunderstandings of No Importance, 1985