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Born in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg) in 1982, Christian Welter graduated in Italian studies and French literature at Strasbourg University and Roma Tre University. He worked as a teacher in Italy, in Arezzo, as French and English reader. He is a full professor of Italian and French in a high school in Luxembourg, where he also coordinates an Erasmus+ four-nations project (Luxembourg, Italy, France, Germany). He is responsible of a students’ TV (Uelzechtkanal) and he regularly cooperates with Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt (France). As a translator, he is currently working on the translation of Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno” from Italian to Luxembourgish: the translation of Canto V was presented to the public on the occasion of the ceremony held by the University of Luxembourg in 2015 for the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth.