Books are my business: Writer and translator Frank Wynne

Wynne has translated novels from every country in South America bar Venezuela, but also from Ivory Coast, Senegal, Morocco, and Lebanon

Frank Wynne: 'A book cannot be communicated by taking the book and simply shifting the words into another language.' File picture: Nick Bradshaw 

Frank Wynne is an award-winning writer and translator from French and Spanish. 

His translation of Atomised by Michel Houllebecq won the 2002 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.