Tina Kover
Tina Kover (born March 20, 1975 in Denver, Colorado, USA) is a literary translator. She studied French at the University of Denver and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and attended the Next Level Language Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. She holds a Master's Degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Durham University. Her published works include the Modern Library translation of Georges by Alexandre Dumas père, The Black City by George Sand for Carroll & Graf Publishers, and Cosmos Incorporated and Grand Junction by Maurice G. Dantec for Del Rey Books. She was a contributing translator to Jonathan Nossiter's 2009 memoir Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters. In August 2009 she was named by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of 16 recipients of a Literature Fellowship for Translation to help subsidize her translation of the 1867 novel Manette Salomon by the Goncourt brothers. On November 2, 2009, her translation of Maurice G. Dantec's Cosmos Incorporated was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has been selected to translate Benoit Peeters' biography of Hergé for publication by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011. Her translation of Maurice G. Dantec's Grand Junction was longlisted on November 15, 2010 for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Modern Library author page for Tina Kover
Kensington Review review of Georges
Amazon.com page for The Black City
Amazon.com page for Cosmos Incorporated
January Magazine review of Cosmos Incorporated
Sci Fi Weekly review of Cosmos Incorporated
SFRevu review of Cosmos Incorporated
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