1. William Rodarmor was born on June 5,1942 and is an American journalist, adventurer, and translator of French literature.
21 Facts About William Rodarmor
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William Rodarmor is notable in the field of literary translation for having won the Lewis Galantiere Award from the American Translators Association, and the Albertine Prize.
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William Rodarmor briefly practiced law in San Francisco but quickly abandoned it to sail to Tahiti.
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William Rodarmor then spent the 1970s traveling, mountaineering, and sailing.
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William Rodarmor would go on to translate over forty more books, including Moitessier's popular Tamata and the Alliance, and a number of books by Gerard de Villiers, Tanguy Viel, and Katherine Pancol.
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William Rodarmor concurrently pursued a career in journalism, including working as an associate editor for PC World in the late 1980s, and as the managing editor of California Monthly during the 1990s.
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William Rodarmor was born in New York City on June 5,1942, and attended the Lycee Francais de New York, as well as College Beau Soleil in Switzerland, becoming bilingual at an early age.
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William Rodarmor enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1960, but dropped out to serve in the Army from 1961 to 1964.
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William Rodarmor quit the law in 1970, when he was 28, and sailed from Panama to Tahiti, as a crew member on a 40-foot French ketch.
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Moitessier asked William Rodarmor to translate his round-the-world saga, The Long Way, into English.
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William Rodarmor worked as an editor for East Bay Review in the late 1970s.
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William Rodarmor said he especially enjoyed learning broadcasting from Bill Drummond and long-form writing from Bernard Taper and David Littlejohn.
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William Rodarmor found the new position to be challenging but exciting, starting with a pool of "underpaid" freelance writers of varying skills.
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William Rodarmor grew up in New York, and has long lived in Berkeley, California.
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Together, Golick and William Rodarmor won The New Yorker cartoon caption contest in 2010.
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Since 1970 William Rodarmor has translated over 40 books and screenplays from French to English.
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Between 2014 and 2016, William Rodarmor reeled off five spy thrillers by Gerard de Villiers, whose CIA contractor hero Malko Linge has been compared to that of Ian Fleming's James Bond.
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William Rodarmor has translated a series of time-travel books by Guillaume Prevost and novels by Katherine Pancol.
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William Rodarmor says that his goal is "to produce a text so smooth that the reader isn't aware it's a translation" and that it should read like a book the original author would have written if he were fluent in English.
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William Rodarmor has won several translation awards, most notably the Lewis Galantiere Award and the Albertine Prize.
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In 1996 William Rodarmor won the Lewis Galantiere Award from the American Translators Association for his translation of Tamata and the Alliance by Bernard Moitessier.