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Authors: David Bellos
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? (55 page)
David Bellos is the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, where he is also a professor of French and comparative literature. He has won many awards for his translations, including the Man Booker International translator’s award. He received the Prix Goncourt for his biography of Georges Perec and has also written biographies of Jacques Tati and Romain Gary.
Copyright © 2011 by David Bellos
All rights reserved
Originally published in 2011 by Particular Books, an imprint of
Penguin Books, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Faber and Faber, Inc.
Originally published in 2011 by Particular Books, an imprint of
Penguin Books, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Faber and Faber, Inc.
Faber and Faber, Inc.
An affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
An affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott
eISBN 9780865478725
First eBook Edition : September 2011
First American edition, 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bellos, David.
Is that a fish in your ear? : translation and the meaning of everything / David Bellos.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-86547-857-2 (alk. paper)
I. Title.
P306.B394 2011
418’.02—dc23
2011022237
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