Gisele Sapiro’s interview on Pierre Bourdieu is part of a set of texts to mark the 10th birthday of Pierre Bourdieu’s death in 2012. The current director of the Centre de Sociologie Europeenne (CSE), Centre Europeen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP) – provides a broad overview of the reception of Pierre Bourdieu’s work in the international world, particularly in the Anglo-American world. Trained in Israel and coming from the area of comparative literature, she notifies the meeting that would become her teacher and doctoral supervisor, and of which she would become a major publisher. Inspired by his experience as a translator, he reflects on the reception of Bourdieu’s work throughout the world, showing how the cultural characteristics peculiar to each society have created environments that are more or less favourable to certain aspects of the author’s work, enabling extraordinary success among different disciplinary audiences.