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November 24, 2006
Qui est aux commandes?
My good friend Claudine Lieber from the Direction du Livre, the literature department of the French Ministry of Culture, has completed a translation of "Who's in Charge?" into French. It is now available in French, Moldovan and English.
I am very grateful to her. In the days when I was much preoccupied with Czech literature I learned to understand the value of translators. Without them the world would be a poorer place.
Moreover it is instructive to notice that the French Government has a department which genuinely and seriously concerns itself with literature, publishing, bookselling and public libraries. Claudine is an inspector of libraries - which is a very useful role for an experienced librarian; she just travels her part of the country helping libraries and authorities to do their work.
Posted by Tim Coates at November 24, 2006 5:54 PM