Obituary

Anthea Bell: Witty translator of Asterix and many weightier works

28 October 2018 - 00:00

By The Daily Telegraph

Anthea Bell, who has died at the age of 82, was sometimes described as the doyenne of translators, having introduced the English-speaking world to hundreds of book titles for adults and children, originally German and French in the main.

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