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Miranda Richmond Mouillot

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I was born and raised in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Asheville, NC, also known as the Paris of the South and the Freak Capital of the Nation, depending on who you ask. I came into this world intolerant of all things institutional, quit school twice, and spent a year in a mournful and drafty boarding house in Switzerland, but ultimately managed to graduate from Asheville High School and then from Harvard College, where I studied History and Literature. I moved to France in 2004 to write A Fifty-Year Silence, intending to stay just a year, but I got sidetracked by the writing process and here I still am. Nowadays I divide my time between France and Australia, with occasional side trips to the United States. I write mostly nonfiction, my own mix of history and personal reflections, and I translate from French into English. Most recently, I completed a translation of Romain Gary's last (and in my opinion greatest) novel, THE KITES, which is forthcoming from New Directions in 2017. My next writing project is about brilliance, femininity, and the Enlightenment's only woman philosophe, and my next translation project is Johann Chapoutot's brilliant examination of Nazism, titled THE LAW OF BLOOD, for Harvard University Press.
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