Resident

Lucie Modde
From 26 April to 25 May 2022

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Lucie Modde was born in 1988 in Nantes, France. A French translator who works from Chinese and English, she is also a reader for several publishers. Following the approach promoted by the association ATLAS, which strives to foster literary translation, she has recently begun to deepen her experience in running translation workshops. She has published a number of literary translations in French, including Tout ça va changer by Lao Ma (Picquier, 2015), Les âmes des enfants endormis(Denoël, 2017; from Mia Yun’s novel House of the Winds), Encore plus loin que Pluton by Huang Chong-kai (L’Asiathèque, 2018), Chinese Queer by Seven (Sarbacane, 2020), and L’hôtel du cygne by Zhang Yueran (Zulma, 2021).