Maren Baudet-Lackner is an American literary translator from the French. She has published a dozen titles with major imprints in the United Kingdom and United States and is the recipient of multiple PEN Awards. She has also received Albertine Translation grants for her work. Baudet-Lackner holds advanced degrees from Yale University and the Sorbonne and lives near Paris with her family.
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Books translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner
In an ancient Moroccan apiary, a young boy’s inheritance of bees is endangered by climate change, family secrets, and the silence surrounding grief.
High in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, surrounded by valleys once rich with lavender and thyme, stands a centuries-old complex of communal beehives. Here, Anir’s dreams of becoming a beekeeper like his grandfather are realized when he is entrusted with his own colony—an inheritance and a responsibility far greater than he ever could have imagined.