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 translation of Négar Djavadi's award-winning novel "Disoriental" was a finalist for the inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2018, the PEN Translation Prize in 2019, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and the International Dublin Literary Award. "Disoriental" was awarded both the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction in June 2019.
"Older Brother" was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2020.
Her translation of "In the Shadow of the Fire" was selected for a French Voices Award in 2020.
She is the co-founder, with Charlotte Coombe, of the YouTube channel "Translators Aloud", which features literary translators reading from their own work. Contributors have included Jennifer Croft, Daniel Hahn, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Ros Schwartz, and Frank Wynne.
Translations.
"No Touching", Ketty Rouf, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021
"The Science of Middle-Earth", Lehoucq, Mangin, & Steyer, eds., Pegasus Books, New York, 2021
"In the Shadow of the Fire", Hervé le Corre, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021
"A Beast in Paradise", Cécile Coulon, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021
"Paridaiza", Luis de Miranda, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2020
"Older Brother", Mahir Guven, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2019
"A Summer with Montaigne", Antoine Compagnon, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2019
"The Little Girl on the Ice Floe", Adélaïde Bon, Europa Editions, New York, 2019
"Disoriental", Négar Djavadi, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2018
"Manette Salomon", Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017
"The Beauty of the Death Cap", Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017
"Who Killed the Poet?", Luis de Miranda, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017
"Life, Only Better", Anna Gavalda, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2015
"The Faces of God", Mallock, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2015
"Herge: Son of Tintin", Benoit Peeters, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2011
"Venus", Auguste Rodin, Hol Art Books, Tucson, 2010
"Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters", Jonathan Nossiter, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 2009
"Grand Junction", Maurice G. Dantec, Del Rey Books, New York, 2009
"Cosmos Incorporated", Maurice G. Dantec, Del Rey Books, New York, 2008
"Georges", Alexandre Dumas, Random House/Modern Library, New York, 2007
"The Black City", George Sand, Carroll & Graf/Avalon Publishing, New York, 2004