Tag: Natasha Lehrer

Interview with award-winning translator and writer, Natasha Lehrer: ‘Translation is not a word-for-word transposition. It’s another iteration of the book.’

  Elodie Rose Barnes

Natasha Lehrer, award-winning translator and writer, talks to Elodie Rose Barnes about translation theory, Oulipo writers, the joy of translating poetry and the brilliance of French author Nathalie Léger’s prose.

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Memories of Low Tide by Chantal Thomas, translated by Natasha Lehrer – ‘like reading across a lifetime of language’

  Elodie Rose Barnes

Chantal Thomas’ evocatively layered memoir, Memories of Low Tide, relates the complex, shifting relationship she has with her mother and their mutual love for swimming in the sea.

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