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Interview with British wordsmith (author, translator and professor of translation studies) David Bellos

Dec 7, 2019

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Jonathan Goldberg

David Bellos is the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University. He is the author of Romain Gary: A Tall Story (published by Vintage Digital, 2010), and Georges Perec: A Life in Words (published by David R. Godine, 1993) (Prix Goncourt for…
Interview with the wordsmith (and translator), the late Anthea Bell

Dec 5, 2019

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Jonathan Goldberg

The following interviewed was conducted in September 2015 by Julian Maddison with the world-famous translator, Anthea Bell, who passed away in October 2018. Anthea Bell – the interviewee Julian Maddison – the interviewer J.M. Before speaking about Asterix specifically, do you have a general philosophy regarding how to approach translation and the role of…