FRSL (née Adams) is a literary translator, working from French to English.
She has won the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation twice (in 2005 and 2009), and the Scott-Moncrieff Prize once in 2007.
Ardizzone has translated some 40 titles by writers including Daniel Pennac, Yasmina Reza and Alexandre Dumas.
She specialises in translating sharp dialogue, urban and migrant slang – "a world literature in French".
In 2022, Ardizzone was appointed Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services to literature, and in 2024, she was elected an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.