The National Endowment for the Arts awarded professor emerita Armine Kotin Mortimer a Literature Translation Fellowship for the translation of a  novel by Catherine Cusset. She is one of 24 Literature Translation Fellows in 2020. 

Cusset's novel Un brillant avenir (2008) follows the life of 65-year-old Elena Tiberescu, a Romanian who immigrates to the United States. The novel alternates between the protagonist's childhood in communist Romania and her contemporary life in America, focusing on the parallels between her complex relationship with her parents and her fraught relationship with her daughter-in-law, Marie. Cusset (b. 1963) is the author of 13 novels, several of which have been awarded France's most prestigious prizes. Her Life of David Hockney was published in 2019; that novel and The Story of Jane are her only books available in English.