Alain Lance

{{short description|French writer and translator}}

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Alain Lance (born 18 December 1939 in Bonsecours) is a French writer and translator.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sadk.de/lance.html |title=Alain Lance – Sächsische Akademie der Künste |access-date=15 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232326/http://www.sadk.de/lance.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}

He has been acknowledged for his translations of German authors into French: Volker Braun, Franz Fühmann, Ingo Schulze and Christa Wolf.[http://www.m-e-l.fr/alain-lance,ec,392 Angaben zum Autor] auf der Seite des Maison des écrivains et de la littérature, retrieved 17 October 2012 He lives in Paris.[http://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/autor/alain-lance.html Seite des deutschen Verlages zum Autor], retrieved 17 October 2012