a Paul Knobloch, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Paul Knobloch

Paul Knobloch is a literary translator, fiction writer, political polemicist, film blogger, and editor based in Los Angeles. After studying abroad, he took a graduate degree in French Literature and taught English and French at California State University, Los Angeles, and other local colleges. He simultaneously built a career as a literary translator and is especially well-known for his translations of Boris Vian for Tosh Berman, publisher of TamTam Books. Together, he and Mr. Berman have made available many of Vian’s major works for the first time in English, including Red Grass, which was longlisted for the BTBA Award in 2015. His most current undertaking, Everything Vanishes, is an English translation of Catherine Cusset’s L’autre que j’adorait, scheduled for release in Fall 2026. Mr. Knobloch blogs regularly on politics at leftnotliberal and on film at Dumber Than the Crudest Fiction.