Valentin Decoppet translates from German, Swiss German and English into French. He has written a novel, short stories and is currently working on a dissertation on the poetics of the German translator Eugen Helmlés at the Université de Lausanne.
As a translator, he prefers experimental texts or texts that play with and twist language, creating and discovering new characters and novel ways of expressing a changing reality. Rhythm, sound and movement are the essential elements of a text for him.