Sam Taylor

About The Author

Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated over seventy books from French including works by 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 (London) before moving to France. He now lives in Texas with his family and is working on his sixth novel.

Books by Sam Taylor

Dancefloor
By Victor Jestin
Translated by Sam Taylor
From the author of Heatwave, a Waterstones Book of the Month
From the translator of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Lullaby and HHhH
 
'The modern day successor to Francoise Sagan' 
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The Summer Boy

A Novel

By Philippe Besson
Translated by Sam Taylor
On an island off the coast of France, six teenagers come together for a summer of desire and discovery until one of them vanishes forever, leaving the rest with an enduring mystery.
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