Literary translator and writer. Born in 1962, in Sligo Ireland, Frank Wynne studied at Sligo Grammar School and Trinity College Dublin before moving to France in 1984, Frank Wynne became involved in British comics publishing on the cusp of its brief flirtation with graphic novels. He was deputy editor of Crisis (comic) before becoming managing editor of Deadline magazine, home of Tank Girl, created by Jamie Hewlett. After the demise of Deadline magazine, in part through the badly received movie of Tank Girl starring Lori Petty, Frank decamped and, having worked for several years as Editorial Director of AOL UK during the heady expansion of the internet bubble, abandoned office life to become the translator of the novels of Michel Houellebecq (He jointly won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award with Houellebecq for 'Atomised' his translation of 'Les particules élémentaires' - a book the New York Times called a deeply repugnant read.) He has subsequently translated Houellebecq's novels Platform and Lanzarote, together with by Frederic Beigbeder's 'Windows on the World' a novel set in the twin towers during the September 11, 2001 attacks and the novels "Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote and "All is not obliged" by the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma .
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