A translation, with slight adaptation, of ‘Les Trois Messes Basses’, a short story from Contes du Lundi by Alphonse Daudet, published in 1873. ‘Two stuffed turkeys, Garrigou?’ ‘Yes, Reverend, two magnificent turkeys crammed full of truffles. And I should know; I helped stuff them. They looked as though their skin might burst while roasting, […]
Josephine Murray
Winter Snow and Pink Champagne: a translator’s letter home from the Nuremberg War Trials
‘This is an extraordinary place,’ 21-year-old Patricia Crampton, then Patricia Wood, writes of Nuremberg, Southern Germany to her parents in England, in a letter postmarked 5 December 1947. She describes leaving work at 5.30pm in the last stages of a bright and sunny November day, yet by 6pm it is completely dark and snowing. Back […]
