Arthur Hellier: Walking with History

Wartime Auto-da-fé and Intellectual Freedom

Authors

  • Odile Hellier
  • Glenn Naumovitz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18422/79-2833

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Author Biographies

Odile Hellier

Odile Hellier was born in 1942, in Montpellier. She studied at the University of Rennes, and in 1966, following a one-year research scholarship in Moscow (1964-1965) she completed her Master’s on the topic “The Theme of the Great Soviet Patriotic War in the Contemporary Soviet Novel, 1941-1945.” She then taught Russian language and literature, but following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia she resigned from teaching Russian. After further training at the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris: Ecole d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs, she worked in Washington DC. Her translation of Michael Thellwell’s work: “Fish are Jumping an’ the Cotton is High: Notes from the Mississippi Delta” (1966), was published in Sartre’s review Les Temps Modernes (1971). In 1971, she also co-translated, with Jean Gouriou, Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (Manuel de l’animateur social, Editions du Seuil, 1971). In 1982, she opened the Village Voice Bookshop in Paris. For the next 30 years, it was one of Paris’s most important intellectual meeting places for international writers. In 2024, her memoir Village Voices (Seven Stories Press) was published, an homage to a generation of Anglophone American, and world, authors.

Glenn Naumovitz

Glenn Naumovitz was born in New Jersey. He is a Paris-based professional translator and editor. Naumovitz holds an advanced degree in Twentieth-Century European History from Columbia University, where he studied under Robert Paxton, a leading historian of Vichy France. Among his many translations are works published by the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, including My Leap to Freedom (Le Manuscrit), A Thousand Days in the Life of a Deportee (Le Manuscrit) and The Nomad (Le Manuscrit). He has also translated and edited for international institutions such as UNESCO, UNICEF, the United Nations, and the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, among many others.

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Published

2026-09-24

How to Cite

Hellier, Odile, and Glenn Naumovitz. “Arthur Hellier: Walking With History: Wartime Auto-Da-Fé and Intellectual Freedom”. New American Studies Journal: A Forum, vol. 79, Sept. 2026, doi:10.18422/79-2833.

Issue

Vol. 79 (2026): Paris Anglophone Writing: a Special NASJ Issue

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A Tale of Two Bookstores

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