Jordan Stump's translation The Barefoot Woman, a novel by Scholastique Mukasonga, is among the five finalists for this year's National Book Award in Translated Fiction.  The Barefoot Woman is Scholastique Mukasonga’s second memoir about the Rwandan genocide and focuses on the loss of her mother. A professor of French at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and an alumnus of our department, Stump has established himself as one of the premier literary translators from French, including translations of texts by Patrick Modiano (Nobel laureate 2014), Marie NDiaye, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint.