Ben Faccini is an English novelist and translator who was born in England and grew up in France and Italy. After working for many years for UNESCO in Paris, where he wrote extensively on education and disadvantaged children, he published the novels The Water-Breather (2002), The Incomplete Husband (2007), and Other People's Children (2026), and has translated French-language fiction into English, including Lydie Salvayre's Pas pleurer as Cry, Mother Spain, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
- Occupation
- translator, novelist, writer
