Prix de Traduction 2025
- October-November 2025
Literature Ireland and the Centre Culturel Irlandais are delighted to announce that the Prix de traduction 2025 is awarded to Paul Matthieu for Retour à Belfast (Albin Michel, 2024) his translation into French of Close to Home by Michael Magee.
The "Prix de Traduction du CCI et Literature Ireland", was created for the promotion of Irish literature in the French language. The Prix aims to support the translation of works of fiction by Irish authors who are as yet unknown in France. Awarded every second year, the prize of €3,000 goes to the translator of a first translation published in the two previous years.In addition to Retour à Belfast by Michael Magee, Paul Matthieu has translated works by Dario Diofebi (Paradise, Nevada), Geoff Dyer (Les Derniers Jours de Roger Federer), Paul Harding (Cet autre Éden), Scott Preston (Le Sang des collines) and Abraham Verghese (Le Pacte de l’eau).
