We're delighted to welcome Nat Paterson to the blog, to tell us more about his translation of Léopold Chauveau's story 'The Little Monster'/ 'Le Petit Monstre', which appears in our April 2024 issue. I needed to write about the story in part because of two ways it helped enable the exhibition to happen: it was published in 2010 in Créatures hypothétiques (Hypothetical creatures, Librairie Élisabeth Brunet: Paris), a portfolio sold at two smaller scale exhibitions; and the Orsay donor, Léopold’s grandson Marc Chauveau, has stated that he made the difficult decision to give the works up because he did not want them to suffer the fate described at the end of the story. Are there other authors you'd like to translate, or whose work you'd like to see in English translation?