Chloé Billon

Chloé Billon is a literary translator and conference interpreter. After studying English and German literature, she pursued a degree in Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian at Inalco, completing a Master's in literary translation. She also holds a diploma in conference interpreting from ESIT and was part of the 2016–2018 cohort at the French National Book Center's Literary Translation School (ETL).

She received the 2020 Inalco–VO/VF Translation Prize for Turbines du Titanic by Robert Perišić, and the 2023 Grand Translation Prize of the City of Arles for The Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić. Her translation of Adios Cowboy by Olja Savičević won the 2020 First Foreign Novel Prize. She mainly translates from Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, as well as from German and English. She has translated several contemporary authors from the Balkans.