Jean Esch

Jean Esch, born in 1962, is a French literary translator working from English, with a graduate degree in English studies. Over a four-decade career he has become one of France's leading translators of crime fiction and thrillers, translating authors including Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, George Pelecanos, and Donald Westlake, as well as Robert Muchamore's Cherub series. He is best known as the principal French translator of Philip Pullman, rendering the His Dark Materials trilogy and the Sally Lockhart novels, and he also writes French subtitles for film and television.