Stephanie Smee (Translator) Stephanie Smee left a career in law to work as a literary translator. Recent translations include Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother and The Inheritors, Fran oise Frenkel's rediscovered World War II memoir No Place to Lay One's Head, which was awarded the JQ-Wingate Prize, and Joseph Ponthus' prize-winning work On the Line.