Like most translators, I’m a ventriloquist, and I work hard… - William Rodarmor

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Like most translators, I’m a ventriloquist, and I work hard to make people sound like themselves, and not like me.

William Rodarmor

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About William Rodarmor

William Rodarmor (born June 5, 1942) is an American journalist, editor, and translator of French literature. He is notable in the field of literary translation for having won the Albertine Prize, and the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association.

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Jokes [are] the bane of every trasnlator's existence.

The sex scenes were the toughest to translate. Sex is notoriously hard to write about, and no easier to translate. My prose probably falls somewhere between puritanical and pornographic. Maybe sex is just better in French.

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Like most translators, I’m a ventriloquist, and I work hard to make people sound like themselves, and not like me. - William Rodarmor

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