Ruth Diver holds a PhD in French and comparative literature from the University of Paris 8 and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She won Asymptote’s 2016 Close Approximations fiction prize for her translation of extracts of Maraudes by Sophie Pujas, and her translation of The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaïde Bon was short-listed for the TA First Translation Prize. Since then she has translated The Revolt by Clara Dupont-Monod, A Respectable Occupation by Julia Kerninon, and Arcadia by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam.