Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and Translation, the Grand Prix du Livre de Montral, and longlisted for the Prix Albertine. Her translation ofThe Yearsby Annie Ernaux was awarded the 2018 French-American Prize, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, and awarded the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, honouring both author and translator.
'Reading her is like getting to know a friend, the way they tell you about themselves over long conversations that sometimes take years, revealing things slowly, looping back to some parts of their life over and over, hardly mentioning others.' - Joanna Biggs, London Review of Books 'Annie Ernaux is one of my favourite contemporary writers, original and true. Always after reading one of her books, I walk around in her world for months.' - Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour