Paul Knobloch is a literary translator, fiction writer, and editor based in Los Angeles. After studying abroad, he took a graduate degree in French Literature and taught English and French at California State University, Los Angeles, and other local colleges. He simultaneously built a career as a literary translator and is especially well-known for his translations of Boris Vian for Tosh Berman, publisher of TamTam Books. Together, he and Mr. Berman have made available many of Vian’s major works for the first time in English, including Red Grass, which was long-listed for the BTBA Award in 2015. His most current undertaking, Everything Vanishes, is an English translation of Catherine Cusset’s L’autre que j’adorait, scheduled for release in Fall 2024 by Red Car Press. Mr. Knobloch blogs regularly on film at Dumber Than The Crudest Fiction.

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