Charlotte Mandell has translated over forty books from French into English, including Mathias Énard’s Zone, a novel written as a single 517-page sentence, which was awarded a grant by the NEA in 2010; Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones; and Maurice Blanchot’s book of essays, Faux Pas, which was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature for 2001-2002 by the Modern Language Association. A complete list of her translations is available at her website: http://www.charlottemandell.com/
In May 2015, Bard College awarded her the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, the poet Robert Kelly.