Jordan Stump
Jordan Stump is a Professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the translator of around thirty works of (mostly) contemporary French-language fiction, by authors such as Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, Marie NDiaye and Scholastique Mukasonga.
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Fiction | The Online Edition
Vengeance is Mine
Marie NDiaye
‘I’m simply trying to do good, Sharon, in the way that I can.’
Fiction by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Notes on Craft
Scholastique Mukasonga
‘It was the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis that made me a writer.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
That Time of Year
Marie NDiaye
‘The fact was that outside of summertime they knew nothing about the place at all.’
Translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Cheffe
Marie NDiaye
‘She was proud, but there was no vanity in her pride.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
My Heart Hemmed In
Marie NDiaye
‘I stagger from the shock. I feel the corners of my mouth turning down. My jaw begins to tremble. Yes, yes, yes, I say to myself, get ahold of yourself.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Ladivine
Marie NDiaye
‘We were hoping for a communion, and that communion never came.’
