Alison L. Strayer
Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. Her translations include works by Annie Ernaux, Abdellah Taïa, Yasmina Reza, Mavis Gallant and Virginia Woolf. Forthcoming translations in 2025 include The Places of Marguerite Duras, Dreaming Out Loud and The Other Girl. Photograph © J. P. Cresceri
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 171
Nowhere
Yasmina Reza
‘I have no house, from time to time I dream of having one, not a holiday home but a house to bury myself in.’
Memoir by Yasmina Reza, translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 162
Hôtel Casanova
Annie Ernaux
‘I never asked myself if I loved P. But nothing could have kept me from going to make love with him at the Hôtel Casanova.’
Memoir by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Anne-Marie the Beauty
Yasmina Reza
An excerpt from the playwright’s new book.
