Frank Wynne is a writer and award-winning literary translator. Born in Ireland he has lived and worked in Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires and currently lives in San Jos�, Costa Rica. He has translated more than a dozen major novels, among them the works of Michel Houellebecq, Fr�d�ric Beigbeder, Pierre M�rot and the Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. A journalist and broadcaster, he has written for the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Irish Times, Melody Maker, and Time Out.