Tina Kover is a literary translator. She studied French at the University of Denver

University of Denver

The University of Denver is currently ranked 82nd among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report in the 2012 rankings....

 and the University of Lausanne

University of Lausanne

The University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 12,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the university...

, Switzerland, and attended the Next Level Language Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. Her published works include the Modern Library

Modern Library

The Modern Library is a publishing company. Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, it was purchased in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer...

 translation of Georges by Alexandre Dumas père, The Black City by George Sand

George Sand

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...

 for Carroll & Graf Publishers

Carroll & Graf Publishers

Carroll & Graf Publishers, an American publishing company centered in New York City, was an imprint of the Avalon Publishing Group,Publisher Kent Carroll, the editorial director of Grove Press from 1975 to 1981, co-founded Carroll & Graf in 1982...

, and Cosmos Incorporated and Grand Junction by Maurice G. Dantec for Del Rey Books

Del Rey Books

Del Rey Books is a branch of Ballantine Books, which is owned by Random House and, in turn since 1998, by Bertelsmann AG. It is a separate imprint established in 1977 under the editorship of author Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey. It specializes in science fiction and fantasy...

. She was a contributing translator to Jonathan Nossiter

Jonathan Nossiter

Jonathan Nossiter is an American filmmaker. Son of Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent Bernard Nossiter, he was born in the United States in 1961. He was raised in France, England, Italy, Greece and India...

's 2009 memoir Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters. In August 2009 she was named by the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

 as one of 16 recipients of a Literature Fellowship for Translation to help subsidize her translation of the 1867 novel Manette Salomon by the Goncourt brothers

Goncourt brothers

The Goncourt brothers were Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt , both French naturalist writers. They formed a partnership that "is possibly unique in literary history...

. On November 2, 2009, her translation of Maurice G. Dantec's Cosmos Incorporated was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world...

. She has been selected to translate Benoit Peeters' biography of Hergé

Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also...

for publication by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011. Her translation of Maurice G. Dantec's Grand Junction was longlisted on November 15, 2010 for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Modern Library author page for Tina Kover

Amazon.com page for Georges

Kensington Review review of Georges

Amazon.com page for The Black City

Amazon.com page for Cosmos Incorporated

January Magazine review of Cosmos Incorporated

Sci Fi Weekly review of Cosmos Incorporated

SFRevu review of Cosmos Incorporated