Frédéric Boyer

Frédéric Boyer is the author of novels, essays, plays, and poetry, an editor at Bayard Presse, and a translator. He led a group of contemporary French writers in a new translation of the bible, published in 2001, and more recently undertook new translations of the Confessions of Saint Augustine and the Song of Roland.


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Translation: Oneself As Another

As part of our co-sponsorship of Villa Gillet’s Walls and Bridges festival, we are pleased to publish the following brief declaration of principles by the French writer and translator Frédéric Boyer. On Friday, October 18, Boyer will deliver a keynote address at the mini-conference “Found in Translation,” an event celebrating the publication of In Translation: Translators on […]