Anthea Bell is a well known translator who has translated numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German, Danish and Polish to English. She is however, best known for her witty and innovative translations of the French Asterix comics along with co-translator Derek Hockridge. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 100 × 130 pixelsFull resolution (100 × 130 pixel, file size: 3 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Anthea Bell Internet promotional biography picture at [1] This work is a copyrighted publicity photograph. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For other uses, see Asterix (disambiguation). ... Derek Hockridge is the co-translator along with Anthea Bell of the world renowned Asterix comic books, written by Goscinny and illustrated by Uderzo. ...

Life

Anthea Bell was born in Suffolk, United Kingdom. According to her own accounts, she picked up lateral thinking abilities essential in a translator from her father Adrian Bell, Suffolk author and the first Times cryptic crossword setter. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She has translated numerous Franco-Belgian comics of the bande dessinée genre into English, most notably Asterix – for which her innovative new puns have been critically acclaimed for keeping the original French spirit intact. Other notable comic books she has translated include Le Petit Nicolas, Lieutenant Blueberry, and Iznogoud. She specializes in translating children's literature, and has re-translated Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales from Danish for the publishing house of G. P. Putnam's Sons. Suffolk (pronounced ) is a large historic and modern non-metropolitan county in East Anglia, England. ... Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, a Maltese psychologist, physician, and writer, although it may have been an idea whose time was ready; the notion of lateral truth is discussed by Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance from the same era... Adrian Bell (1901-1980), the son of a newspaper editor, was born in London and educated at Uppingham School in Rutland. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Somerville College, part of the University of Oxford, was one of the first womens colleges to be founded there. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ... Tintin, one of the most famous Belgian comics Franco-Belgian comics are comics or comic books written in Belgium and France. ... For other uses, see Asterix (disambiguation). ... Le petit Nicolas (Little Nicolas) is a series of humorous French childrens books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, published between 1956 and 1964. ... Blueberry Blueberry is a French language comic strip created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean MÅ“bius Giraud. ... Iznogoud. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... G. P. Putnams Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. ...

Anthea Bell has also translated a large number of novels, as well as some books on art history, and musicology into English. Her translations of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz (plus other works by Sebald) and E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr have been well received critically. She presently lives and works from Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her son, Oliver Kamm, is a columnist for The Times. Her brother, Martin Bell, is a former MP and a former BBC correspondent, who is now an ambassador for UNICEF. This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ... Musicology is reasoned discourse concerning music (Greek: μουσικη = music and λογος = word or reason). In other words: the whole body of systematized knowledge about music which results from the application of a scientific method of investigation or research, or of philosophical speculation and rational systematization to the facts, the processes and the... W. G. (Winifried Georg Maximilian) Sebald (18 May 1944, Wertach im Allgäu–14 December 2001, Norfolk, United Kingdom) was a German writer and academic. ... Austerlitz is the final novel of W. G. Sebald, published in 2001. ... ETA Hoffman Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 - June 25, 1822), was a German romantic and fantasy author and composer. ... Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... Oliver Kamm (born 1963) is a British newspaper columnist, author and blogger. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... For the British skier of the same name, please see Martin Bell (skier). ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... UNICEF Logo The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: ; French: ; Spanish: ) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ...

Notable awards

• 2002 – Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, Goethe Institute – for translating W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
• 2002 – Independent Foreign Fiction Prize – for translating W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
• 2003 – Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – for Where Were You Robert? translated from German (author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
• 2007 – Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – for The Flowing Queen translated from German (author: Kai Meyer)

Goethe in der Campagna The Goethe-Institut (GI) is a German non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote German language and culture outside of the German-speaking countries. ... W. G. (Winifried Georg Maximilian) Sebald (18 May 1944, Wertach im Allgäu–14 December 2001, Norfolk, United Kingdom) was a German writer and academic. ... Austerlitz is the final novel of W. G. Sebald, published in 2001. ... The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. ... W. G. (Winifried Georg Maximilian) Sebald (18 May 1944, Wertach im Allgäu–14 December 2001, Norfolk, United Kingdom) was a German writer and academic. ... Austerlitz is the final novel of W. G. Sebald, published in 2001. ... Marsh Award for Childrens Literature in Translation is a literary prize awarded in the United Kingdom since 1996 to the translator of an outstanding work of fiction for young readers translated into English. ... Marsh Award for Childrens Literature in Translation is a literary prize awarded in the United Kingdom since 1996 to the translator of an outstanding work of fiction for young readers translated into English. ...

References

• Asterix, My Love - An article by Anthea Bell at the Asterix website
• Anthea Bell's workshop on Asterix
• Opening Speech, Anthea Bell, Shelving Translation Conference, April 2004

External links

• Anthea Bell interview with Writer Unboxed