In 1988, shortly after graduating in French and German from Oxford University, Nicky Gentil moved to Paris to work as a translator and has lived there ever since. Today she translates her own books, initially writing them in French. Raised monolingually, British-born Gentil is herself a late bilingual while her French husband and their two children are early bilinguals.
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