“I love the intense reading experience, particularly where poetry and literary prose are concerned, the process of really engaging with a text, constructing meaning, and then having to act on this reading experience, not keeping it to yourself, but allowing it to flow into a text that will be read by others. With children’s literature, I particularly love the whole process of recreating humour.”

Chantal Wright is a British literary translator. She speaks German and French. She decided to answer our questions in English.

Read the full interview in Authors & Translators here: http://authors-translators.blogspot.com/2014/01/chantal-wright-and-her-authors.html

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