Lauren Elkin (FR/US)
Author & translator
Lauren Elkin is a Franco-American writer and translator, the author of several books, including Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City. In addition, she is the author of AHC’s publication on Tove Storch.
Her essays have appeared in Granta, the London Review of Books, Frieze, Art Review, Harper’s, Aperture, Tate Etc, and the New York Times, where she has profiled artists like Cornelia Parker and Sutapa Biswas, and she has contributed to catalogues for artists including Sarah Lucas, Lubaina Himid, Vlatka Horvat, Hannah Starkey, and Caroline Walker.
She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables; upcoming translations include Constance Debré’s Nom, Marie-Laure Bernadec’s biography of Louise Bourgeois, and work by Lola Lafon and Colombe Schneck. Her next book, a novel entitled Scaffolding, will be published by Chatto & Windus in June 2024. She lives in London.
Lauren Elkin. Photo: Sophie Davidson.
