25 October 2023

'Moriarty the Patriot': Do French manga readers feel closer to British history or Otaku characters?

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Date: 25 October 2023
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue: Online

About this event

Global Translation Studies Seminar Series in 2023-24

In association with Japan Foundation

Presenter: Patrick Honnoré (ESIT, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle)

5:00pm - 6:00pm (UK time), 6:00pm - 7:00pm (EU time)

About the speaker

Translator from Japanese into French (Literature, Children's literature, manga...) since 2003.
Best Comic Prize at Festival international de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême 2007 with NonNonBâ by Mizuki Shigeru (Ed Cornelius, Paris, 2006).
Literature translation Prize, Konishi Foundation 2012 for La Tour de Tokyo, by Lily Franky (Ed. Philippe Picquier, Arles, 2010)
Japan Translation Grand Prix 2016 for the co-translation with Ryoko Sekiguchi of Solibo Magnifique, by Patrick Chamoiseau (Subarashiki Solibo, ed. Kawade Shobô shinsha, Tokyo, 2016)
Lecturer at ESIT (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle) since 2016

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