Translator Laura Marris, my guest on this episode, had long wanted to translate Albert Camus’s The Plague, his novel about a fictional pestilence that afflicted the Algerian coastal city of… Read More
This is the second half of the conversation I had last autumn with Polly Barton, a translator from Japanese and the author of a terrific memoir-cum-reflection on language and translation,… Read More
This episode is part one of a two-part conversation I had last autumn with Polly Barton, a translator from Japanese and the author of Fifty Sounds, which was one of… Read More
Sometimes – and it’s the case with the subject of this programme – a book is published and you think, “I am as close to dead centre in the target… Read More
This week we explore the life and work of the master of the 19th-century short story, Guy de Maupassant, in the company of his recent biographer Christopher Lloyd, who’s emeritus… Read More
A young man inherits a house on an island in the middle of the raging waters of a mighty river from his mysterious great-uncle Malicroix. But to satisfy the conditions… Read More
This week, another interview in the series of Conversations with Translators. My guest is Meredith McKinney, a translator from Japanese whose anthology of classical Japanese travel writing was published in… Read More
This week, a new life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the fourteenth-century poet who is regarded as a father of English literature, though that’s a stereotype my guest, Marion Turner, wants to… Read More
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox explore four centuries in the afterlife of Joan of Arc. Our guest, Gail Orgelfinger, is a medievalist by training and a founding member… Read More
This week, another in our series of Conversations with Translators. And with my guest Tim Allen, we move for the first time (at last) beyond European languages. I’m always interested… Read More
