Since I made the book trailer for my translation, Stories to Read by Candlelight, I’ve realised I have translated other books that might suit this form of promotion. One is Winter Tales (Histoires d’hiver) by Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, a small collection extracted from a larger one, Russian Hearts (Coeurs russes). Again I used the video…
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Last week I wrote about a book trailer idea for Stories to Read by Candlelight, using my son Josh’s animations of Erin-Claire Barrow’s silhouettes. It’s all part of an effort to learn how to market my own work. I found a video creation site, Animoto, put together some words and pictures, with, at the end,…
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On the unpredictable path of life I’ve ended up translating French literature from different hemispheres and different centuries. I’ve written about authors from 19th-century France who’ve taken my fancy with their fairy tales and fantasies, and now I want my readers to become acquainted with an author from 21st-century New Caledonia, Claudine Jacques. My first…
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Théodore de Banville. Prolific poet and writer, frequenter of the most anti-conformist Parisian circles. Proponent of ‘art for art’s sake’: « Il n’y a de vraiment beau que ce qui ne peut servir à rien, tout ce qui est utile est laid. » [There is nothing truly beautiful except that which serves no purpose; everything…
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