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  WILLIAM RODARMOR has translated some forty-five books and screenplays in genres from literary fiction to espionage and fantasy. In 1996, he won the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association for Tamata and the Alliance by Bernard Moitessier. In 2017 he won the Northern California Book Award for fiction translation for The Slow Waltz of Turtles by Katherine Pancol. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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