Translating literary works from French to English requires much more than exchanging one word for another, more than trading sentences between languages. It takes an understanding of the author’s message to capture the vision, the essence, of the writing.

It also takes a yearning to communicate fully, something Patricia Carson Claxton felt as an Anglophone living in Montreal in the 1950s. Moving beyond basic bilingualism, the Kingston-born co-founder of the Literary Translators Association of Canada became one of the industry’s top translators. More.

See: The Kingston Whig-Standard

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