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Richard Philcox

Richard Philcox

Richard Philcox is Maryse Condé’s husband and translator. He has also published new translations of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks

Philcox has taught translation on various American college campuses and won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts for the translation of Condé’s works. His translation of Condé’s Waiting for the Waters to Rise, published by World Editions, was longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature in the US, and his translation of her Crossing the Mangrove is now a Penguin Classic. Philcox has also translated Condé’s other World Editions title, The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana. 

Richard Philcox’s translation of The Gospel According to the New World was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, announced on April 18, 2023.

Read more on Richard Philcox

A Q&A with Maryse Condé and Richard Philcox | The Booker Prize

Adjoa Andoh reads from ‘The Gospel According to the New World’ | The Booker Prize

All nominated books