Transparent Translation: Nonfiction

At Transparent Translation, readers can take a look inside the translation workshop, watch, ask questions, and participate. Today: Nonfiction

André Hansen is one of the translators of the famous French economist Thomas Piketty. In his major work Capital and Ideology, from which Hansen will translate an excerpt, Piketty uses the history of property ideologies to develop a vision of participatory socialism for the 21st century.

Translator André Hansen lives in Berlin and translates fiction and non-fiction texts from French and English by, among others, Mahir Guven, Nicolas Mathieu, and Thomas Piketty.