Victor Hugo (1802-1885), novelist, poet, playwright, and politician, is widely considered one of greatest French Romantic writers. He is best known for two of today's most popular world classics: Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) . Over a writing career spanning sixty years, he wrote dozens of acclaimed works, including The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), Les Contemplations (1856), The Toilers of the Sea (1866), and The Man Who Laughs (1869). Julie Rose (translator) is the internationally acclaimed translator of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, for which she was a finalist for the Florence Gould French-American Foundation Translation Prize, as well as The Knight of Maison Rouge by Alexandre Dumas and Phedre by Racine. She is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the New South Wales Premier's Translation Prize and the PEN medallion for translation.