William Rodarmor | |
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| Born | June 5, 1942[1] New York |
| Occupation | French literary translator, Journalist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College (BA) Columbia University (JD) UC Berkeley (MJ) |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Notable works | Tamata and the Alliance (translator) And Their Children After Them (translator) |
| Notable awards | Lewis Galantière Award (1996) Albertine Prize (2021) |
| Spouse | Thaisa Frank (div. 2002) |
| Partner | Toby Golick |
| Children | Casey Rodarmor[2][3] |
William Rodarmor (born June 5, 1942) is an American journalist, editor, and translator of French literature. He is notable in the field of literary translation for having won the Albertine Prize, and the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association.
Rodarmor was born in New York and pursued a bilingual education in English and French. After graduating from Columbia Law School, he tried practicing law but quickly abandoned it in the early 1970s. He then spent the decade traveling, mountaineering, and sailing. He took odd jobs and wrote freelance. Sailing in the South Pacific he met singlehanded sailor and author Bernard Moitessier in Tahiti, leading to Rodarmor's first book translation: Moitissier's round-the-world saga, The Long Way. He would go on to translate over forty more books, including Moitessier's popular Tamata and the Alliance, and multiple books by Gérard de Villiers and Guillaume Prévost.
Rodarmor concurrently pursued a career in journalism, including working as an associate editor for PC World in the late 1980s, and as a managing editor of California Monthly (UC Berkeley's alumni magazine) during the 1990s. In the 2000s he turned again to freelance writing.
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