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PAUL VINCENT (UK) studied at Cambridge and Amsterdam, and after teaching Dutch at the University of London for over twenty years became a full-time translator in 1989. Since then he has published a wide variety of translated poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, including work by Achterberg, Claus, Couperus, Elsschot, Jellema, Mulisch, De Moor, and Van den Brink. He is a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden, and has won the Reid Prize for poetry translation, the Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation, and (jointly) the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.

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‘I am a cycling aficionado, both actively and passively. I started my career in journalism as a cycling reporter—I covered the Tour de France six times. It’s no coincidence that the main character in Ventoux has some things in common with the author; he studied literature (as I did), then went on to become a sports writer. He buys a bike in his forties (as I did), and has a daughter by the name of Anna (mine is called Hannah). But I have never seen Ventoux as a novel about cycling; the friends use cycling the same way as I do myself: as a way of bonding, communicating.’