C. Dickson is the translator of Shams Nadir’s The Astrolabe of the Sea, Mohammed Dib’s Savage Night, J.M.G. Le Clézio’s Round and Other Cold Hard Facts and Wandering Star, and Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam Dreams. But also Ann Riquier’s Voices of Tibetan Women, Laure Adler’s Life in the Bordellos (1830-1930), and Gisèle Pineau’s Chair Piment. Her prizes and awards include the ALTA Fellowship and scholarships to the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires. She lived for five years in West Africa and now lives in France.

• Recent book translations :
2017 (July), The Prospector, J.M.G Le Clezio (Atlantic Books London)
2015 (Dec), The Black Terrorist, Tierno Monénembo (Diasporic Africa Press)
2011, Desert, J.M.G Le Clezio (Verba Mundi Books – David R. Godine)