You’ve probably heard of Oscar Wilde.He was known in his time as a witty and flamboyantplaywright and author and for his many epigraphs andessays touching on the soul of aestheticism.But what is less known about him is that he was atalented translator in more ways than one.As a child he learned French and German from homeand won many prizes for oral translations of Greek andLatin texts, and he was an avid critic of othertranslators’ work.
