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She was an author, editor, and translator. If you do not yet own a copy, I highly recommend getting one that contains the author’s illustrations in color! They lose a lot of charm when reproduced in black and white. The Little Prince: Translation ComparisonĮxtracts have been included below so that you can see how the different translations sound. The following 10 translators are the ones responsible for the most prominent English editions:ĭespite convoluted copyright issues, all 10 of these translations of The Little Prince are currently available. In 1998, a fisherman found a bracelet with his name and his wife's name engraved on it, 150 kilometers west of Marseilles.“Which English translation of The Little Prince should I read?”įirst published in 1943 in the US in French and English, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery is the most translated secular book in the world. Antoine de Saint-Exupery took off on a flight over Southern France on Jand was never seen again. That same year he published The Little Prince, a children's story of such universal appeal that it has been translated into close to fifty languages. He came to the United States after France fell in World War II, but rejoined the French Air Force in North Africa in 1943.

His book, Wind, Sand and Stars won the French Academy's 1939 Grand Prix du Roman and the National Book Award in the United States. He was also working as a foreign correspondent covering May Day events in Moscow and writing a series on the Spanish Civil War. By that time, de Saint-Exupery was married to Consuelo Gomez Castillo and was working as a test pilot for Air France. His second novel, Night Flight, became an international bestseller and was made into a film in 1933.

His route over North Africa was the basis for his first novel, Southern Mail, in 1929. He received his pilot's license in 1922 and, after a few dead end jobs as a bookkeeper and an automobile salesman, he began flying mail for a commercial airline company. de Saint-Exupery began his military service in 1921 and was sent to Strasbourgh to be trained as a pilot.

He later attended a Catholic boarding school in Switzerland before entering the Ecole de Beaux-Arts as an architecture student. Saint-Exupery was educated in Jesuit schools. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900 - 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in Lyon, France on June 29, 1900.

The little prince deluxe pop up book with audio