Alison Strayer was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, in July 1958.

A writer and translator, her work has been shortlisted twice for the Governor General’s Award for Literature and for Translation. She has also been shortlisted for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal and the Prix Littéraire France-Québec, and longlisted for the Albertine Prize. Her translation of The Years was awarded the 2018 French-American Translation Prize in the non-fiction category. She lives in Paris, France.

Alison L. Strayer
The Years
The Years

The Years

By
Annie Ernaux
Translated by
Alison L Strayer
Published by
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Autobiography is given a new form, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective, in Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s genre-bending masterpiece. Translated by Alison L Strayer.