Julia Malye
From 7 May to 3 June 2026

The French translator Julia Malye was born in 1994 in Paris. She holds degrees from Sciences Po Paris and the Sorbonne, and earned an MFA in creative writing from Oregon State University. She regularly translates for the publishing house Les Belles Lettres and since 2018 has been teaching creative writing at Sciences Po Paris, the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, and Oregon State University. She also offers writing workshops to nonacademic participants and devotes time to working in hospital settings and women’s shelters. At the age of fifteen she published her first novel, La fiancée de Tocqueville (Balland, 2010), and has since authored three others, including Les fantômes de Christopher D. (Fayard, 2006). La Louisiane (Stock, 2024)/Pelican Daughters (HarperCollins, 2024) is her fourth novel, a work of historical fiction and a unique project for Malye in that she wrote the French and English versions side by side over several years. It has also been translated into twenty-five languages.