Amanda Allard is an editorial intern at Big Sky Journal in Bozeman, Montana, where she writes about art and culture in the Northern Rockies. Amanda recently graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in French literature. The Lover is her first work of translation to be published.
An emerging translator explores how translating The Lover helped her become “unstuck” at a time when she felt neither fully at home in English or in French. The Lover…