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.

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Originally published in 2011 by Particular Books, an imprint of
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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)

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