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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poe

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"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table"

- Paul Auster

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