Sam Taylor

Rachid Benzine is a teacher and research associate at the Fonds Ricoeur. He is the author of numerous works acclaimed by both the public and critics alike, including Lettres à Nour (Letters to Nour), Ainsi parlait ma mère (So Spoke My Mother), Des mille et une façons d’être juif ou musulman (A Thousand and One Ways of Being Jewish or Muslim, a dialogue with Delphine Horvilleur), and Voyage au bout de l’enfance (A Journey to the End of Childhood). His latest novel Les Silences des pères (The Silences of Fathers) was awarded the Grand Prix du roman Métis.

Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated over seventy books from French including works by many high-profile authors such as Laurent Binet, Leïla Slimani, David Diop, Maylis de Kerangal and Marcel Proust. His translations have received recognition from the International Booker Prize, National Book Award, Dublin Literary Award, Scott-Moncrieff Prize, French-American Foundation Translation Prize and Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Born in England, Sam was a journalist at the Observer before moving to France. He now lives in Texas with his family and is working on his sixth novel.