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,[1] 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,[2] the PEN Translation Prize in 2019,[3] the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and the International Dublin Literary Award. Disoriental was awarded both the Albertine Prize[4] and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction in June 2019.
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