Alison Anderson, a native Californian, works as a literary translator in the Swiss Alps. Her many translations include the Europa edition of Muriel Barbery’s THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, Ingrid Betancourt’s memoir, and the work of JMG De Clezio. She has also written two previous novels and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship, as well as fellowships at the prestigious MacDowell Colony and the Hawthornden Retreat for Writers.

Books by Alison Anderson

The Summer Guest

by Alison Anderson - Fiction, Historical Fiction

The translator of THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, Alison Anderson, delivers a remarkable literary novel --- with a stunning conclusion --- inspired by historical events, in which a diary weaves together the lives of three women: a dying Ukranian doctor who befriends Anton Chekov in the 19th century, a modern-day London book editor, and the woman she hires to translate it into English.