David Ball
Together or separately, Nicole and David Ball have published twenty book-length translations from the French, mostly novels by contemporary French authors. David, a Professor Emeritus at Smith College, has won two major prizes for his translations. Nicole also translates from English to French, most recently Youssef Daoudi’s graphic biography of Thelonious Monk, which won the 2018 French Jazz Academy Prize. Now both retired from teaching, they spend their time between Paris (Nicole’s hometown) and in the US, Northampton (Massachusetts)
and San Francisco.
