Bio

Nathalie Bittoun-Debruyne was born in Paris in 1957 but has been claiming to be "normalised" for years. She dreams and denies in French, but can do so equally in Catalan. She earned a PhD in French philology with a thesis covering Marivaux's reception in Spanish theatre. Before retiring, she was a professor at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and then a French professor at the Open University of Catalonia.

A specialist in comparative literature, she has translated numerous Catalan poets into French, from an anthology ("Catalan Poets", Belgium) to Víctor Sunyol, Vicenç Altaió, Gemma Gorga, J. M. Sala-Valldaura, Anna Montero, Mireia Calafell and more. She has also brought René Char, Jules Verne and Sartre closer to Catalan.

In addition to these achievements, of note is her enthusiasm for the Catalan and French languages and literatures ... and the fact that she has not retired from her passion for translation.

Project

She will translate Mireia Calafell's poems into French.