Dominique Mainard

Dominique Mainard is a novelist, short story writer and translator who has developed a passion for New Zealand literature through the works of Janet Frame, whose writing she has translated since 1994 (Owls do Cry, Joëlle Losfeld). 

After publishing three short story anthologies, including Le Second Enfant, for which she received the Prix Prométhée de la nouvelle in 1994 (La Différence), and Le Grenadier (Gallimard, 1997), Mainard published her first novel in 2001, Le Grand Fakir (Joëlle Losfeld). She received two awards for Leur Histoire (Joëlle Losfeld, 2002) – the Prix du Roman FNAC (2002) and the Prix Alain-Fournier (2003), a novel that was later adapted for film by Alain Corneau – Les Mots Bleus (2005).