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Alison Strayer

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ALISON L. STRAYER is a Canadian writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature (for Jardin et prairie, a novel, 2000) and for Translation (Mavis Gallant's A Fairly Good Time, with G. Letarte, 2010), the Grand Prix Littéraire de la Ville de Montréal and the Prix France-Quebec. She lives in Paris.

Books by Alison Strayer

The Young Man

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.

“A sublime book.” —Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle

“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades.” —Caroline Montpetit in Le Devoir

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Anne-Marie the Beauty

Another thought-provoking master class in how we perform life by the award-winning novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza.

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Infidels

A slim literary masterpiece about a son's blinding love, and a glimpse into the heart of terrorism. Now available in Paperback.

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