New College professor receives literature fellowship

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- by Bradenton Herald

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A New College of Florida professor was recently granted a fellowship to help translate a 2014 French novel.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced Wednesday that Amy Baram Reid, professor of French language and literature at New College of Florida, has been recommended as one of 23 recommended fellows nationwide for 2017. Reid’s $12,500 grant will support the translation from the French of the 2013 novel “When the Plums Are Ripe” (La Saison des prunes) by francophone Cameroonian novelist Patrice Nganang.