Tina Kover

Tina Kover (born March 20, 1975, in Denver, Colorado, US) is a 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 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.

Translations from French to English
Gabriële, Anne and Claire Berest, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2025 The Ogre's Daughter, Catherine Bardon, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2024 Lenin Walked on the Moon, Michel Eltchaninoff, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2023 The Postcard, Anne Berest, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2023 Belle Greene: A Novel, Alexandra Lapierre, Europa Editions, New York, 2022 Blue, Emmelie Prophète, Amazon Crossing, Seattle, 2022 No Touching, Ketty Rouf, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021 The Science of Middle-Earth, Lehoucq, Mangin, & Steyer, eds., Pegasus Books, New York, 2021 In the Shadow of the Fire, Hervé le Corre, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021 A Beast in Paradise, [[Cécile Coulon, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2021 Paridaiza, [[Luis de Miranda, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2020 Older Brother, Mahir Guven, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2019 A Summer with Montaigne, [[Antoine Compagnon, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2019 The Little Girl on the Ice Floe, Adélaïde Bon, Europa Editions, New York, 2019 Disoriental, Négar Djavadi, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2018 Manette Salomon, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017 The Beauty of the Death Cap, Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017 Who Killed the Poet?, Luis de Miranda, Snuggly Books, Sacramento, 2017 Life, Only Better, Anna Gavalda, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2015 The Faces of God, Mallock, Europa Editions, New York & London, 2015 Herge: Son of Tintin, Benoit Peeters, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2011 Venus, Auguste Rodin, Hol Art Books, Tucson, 2010 Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters, Jonathan Nossiter, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 2009 Grand Junction, Maurice G. Dantec, Del Rey Books, New York, 2009 Cosmos Incorporated, Maurice G. Dantec, Del Rey Books, New York, 2008 Georges, Alexandre Dumas, Random House/Modern Library, New York, 2007 The Black City, George Sand, Carroll & Graf/Avalon Publishing, New York, 2004