Friday, October 19, 2018

Anthea Bell, Who Translated Kafka And Astérix, Dead At 82

She was a widely admired translator of German literature in particular, introducing works by Sebald, Zweig, and Freud as well as Kafka to anglophone readers. But she’s best known for her translations of children’s books from German and French, especially the Asterix series of comics, whose puns she cleverly rendered in English.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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