The highly acclaimed author Andrea Grill and the renowned translator Tess Lewis offer a glimpse into their creative process with an online conversation discussing their work. This digital exchange gives you a fascinating insight into the working relationship between the two, as well as the practical and theoretical aspects of translation.

Andrea Grill’s most recent novel Cherubino, nominated for the 2019 German Book Prize, explores Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Nicholas Maw’s opera Sophie’s Choice. To give you more context before the discussion, ACF is offering you an extract from Cherubino.