Jean Ferry’s The Conductor and Other Tales is one of five finalists for the 2013 French-American Foundation Translation Prize! Congratulations to my fellow nominees: Adriana Hunter, Mike Mitchell, Jordan Stump, and Chris Turner for fiction, and Malcolm DeBevoise, Alison Dundy, Nicholas Elliot, Michael Holland, Janet Lloyd, and Thomas Scott-Railton for non-fiction! All my thanks to jury members Linda Asher, David Bellos, Linda Coverdale, Emmanuelle Ertel, and Lorin Stein. And most of all, to my publisher Wakefield Press!