Kover, Tina A.

Tina Kover (born March 20, 1975, in Denver, Colorado, US) is an American-British literary translator. She studied French at the University of Denver and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and attended the Next Level Language Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. She holds a Master's Degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Durham University. Her translation of Négar Djavadi's award-winning novel Disoriental was a finalist for the inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2018, the PEN Translation Prize in 2019, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and the International Dublin Literary Award. Disoriental was awarded both the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction in June 2019. Older Brother was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2020. Her translation of Manette Salomon by the Goncourt Brothers won her a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2009. Her translation of In the Shadow of the Fire was selected for a French Voices Award in 2020. She is the co-founder, with Charlotte Coombe, of the YouTube channel Translators Aloud, which features literary translators reading from their own work. Contributors have included Jennifer Croft, Daniel Hahn, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Ros Schwartz, and Frank Wynne.