Cécile Deniard: The Human Voice Inside Every Translation

Most readers never notice the translator’s name, yet translation is the difference between a book that merely “sounds correct” and a book that actually lives in a new language. We sit down with Cécile Deniard, a literary translator of around 60 books and a longtime leader in European translator advocacy, to show what the job really demands: deep reading, seven or more revision passes, research that can span prison systems to 19th-century Canada, and constant collaboration with authors, editor...