Ryan Bloom is a literary translator, fiction writer, and essayist from Washington, D.C. His translations of French-Algerian Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus include Caligula and Three Other Plays, Travels in the Americas, The First Man, and Notebooks 1951 – 1959, as well as the radio play “The Silences of Paris” and the mimodrama “The Life of the Artist.” His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, Guernica, PEN America, New England Review, and a variety of other magazines and anthologies. Most recently, he has been named a 2024 -2025 Guggenheim Fellow.