Translating Orwell – Interview with Véronique Béghain.

My book ‘Orwell à Paris’, published a year ago (Exils Editions, March 2024) attracted so much interest from French national & literary press that FOLIO CLASSICS have brought out a paperback edition of the most recent translation by Véronique Béghain – until now only available in the 2020 collected works. Interview IN FRENCH with the translator, by Nicolas Ragonneau.

Istrati – a long spell in purgatory

Panaït Istrati, writer of the French preface to Orwell’s “Down & Out in Paris & London” (La Vache Enragée) died in 1935, a pariah, slandered by the Communists. Orwell died in 1950, also of tuberculosis and at the same age as Istrati.
Guest author Nicolas Ragonneau explores the common ground between the 2 writers & tells of Istrati’s long path to redemption…