RYAN
BLOOM
Fictionist, Essayist, Translator
ABOUT
L'HISTOIRE
Ryan Bloom was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He is a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University, a 2024 - 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, and winner of the 2026 French-American Foundation Translation Prize.
He has twice been awarded endowed fellowships by The Corporation of Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
MAGAZINES & SUCH
His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, New England Review, Tin House, Guernica, PEN America, Salon, Vice, Black Clock, Creative Nonfiction, Catapult Books, The American Prospect, and a variety of other publications.
BOOKS
In addition to short-form work, Ryan has published translations of Albert Camus' Travels in the Americas and Notebooks 1951 - 1959, both finalists for The French-American Foundation Translation Prize. He has also published translations of Camus' Caligula & Three Other Plays; The First Man: The Graphic Novel; and The Complete Notebooks. Currently, he is working on a translation of Albert Camus' final collection of political writings, Confronting the Tragedy of History.
WRITING
A Selection of
Recent Work
The first complete, annotated translation of Albert Camus' notebooks, written between 1933 and 1959.
Essay, The New Yorker
Short Story, J Journal: New Writing on Justice
Camus Translation, Vintage Random House
Short Story, Vice
Short Story, Vice / Motherboard
Short Story, The Normal School
Short Story, Chicago Quarterly Review
Short Story, Tiny Crimes Anthology, Catapult Books