Background
Mrs. Bell was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom, on May 10, 1936. She was a daughter of Adrian (a writer) and Marjorie (Gibson) Bell.
Mrs. Bell was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom, on May 10, 1936. She was a daughter of Adrian (a writer) and Marjorie (Gibson) Bell.
Anthea Bell graduated from Somerville College, Oxford University, with Bachelor of Arts, in 1957 and Oxford University with Master of Arts in 1962.
Mrs. Bell served as a freelance translator of numerous fiction and nonfiction books for adults, adapter, and writer since 1958. She also was a judge, annual Schlegel-Tieck German translation prize in England. Many of Mrs. Bell’s works are new translations or adaptions of familiar favorites.
Anthea Bell has also brought English-speaking children works that aren’t well known outside Europe (for example, Andersen’s The Old House, The Wise Queen etc).
As Top of the News reported in 1976 when Mrs. Bell received the Batchelder Award, she believes that “ideally translators ought to be entirely invisible. If a reviewer ignores the fact that a book is a translation, one takes it as a compliment, because bad translation will always call forth a comment.” According to Mrs. Bell in the same speech, “a translator is merely middleman or go-between, craftsman or interpreter”.
(Newly translated, this German folk tale follows a miller'...)
(Presents Hoffmann's tale of a magical being who leads a b...)
(A rebellious waiting-maid gains power over a young prince...)
(When his clever queen begins interfering in the royal cou...)
(After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a...)
(At her christening, the princess, Little Daylight, receiv...)
(Jacob Grimm ( 4th Jan 1785 - 20th Sept 1863) And Wilhelm ...)
(After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a...)
(Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips wer...)
(To impress Julius Caesar, Queen Cleopatra promises to bui...)
(A prince's love for a swan queen overcomes an evil sorcer...)
(On her first visit to the surface, a young mermaid falls ...)
(Normans never feel fear—but they do believe that terror l...)
(When the Romans persuade a Gaulish chief to challenge Vit...)
(Whoops, it’s happened again: Getaflix has been kidnapped,...)
(This wintry tale has warmed the hearts of children around...)
(Operation Britain (Asterix adventure games) [Rene Goscinn...)
(A rhyming visit to a nineteenth-century traveling zoo. Il...)
(When the Romans say no, Asterix says yes. So when the sol...)
(A London Season [Anthea Bell])
Mrs. Bell married Antony Kamm (a publisher) in 1957. They divorced in 1973. Mrs. Bell has 2 children: Richard, Oliver.