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Lara Vergnaud is a translator of prose, creative nonfiction, and scholarly works from the French. She is the recipient of two PEN/Heim Translation Fund grants, a French Voices Grand Prize, and has been nominated for the National Translation Award. Her recent translations include The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr and Demoiselles of Numidia by Mohamed Leftah. Learn more >

Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book published in 1938 titled The Maze of Inhumanity. No one knows what happened to the author, T.C. Elimane, once referred to as the “Black Rimbaud.” After he was accused of plagiarism, his reputation was destroyed by the critics. He subsequently disappeared without a trace. More about this book >
Lara Vergnaud is a translator of prose, creative nonfiction, and scholarly works from the French. She is the recipient of two PEN/Heim Translation Fund grants, a French Voices Grand Prize, and has been nominated for the National Translation Award. Her recent translations include The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr and Demoiselles of Numidia by Mohamed Leftah. She lives in France.
