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This month’s guest read history and educational psychology in England, his home country. He holds an honours degree in educational psychology from the University of London.
Read interviewKevin Hirschi is a Ph.D. candidate (and presidential fellow) in the Applied Linguistics program at Northern Arizona University where he has taught French and English. He is…
Read interviewDr. Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is widely known as a constitutional scholar and legal historian. During the 2019…
Read interviewDiane Murez, a trilingual writer born in Baltimore, studied for a year at the Gymnasium Goetheschule in Hannover on an American Field Service scholarship. After graduating summa…
Read interviewMark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, and Arthur Rimbaud. He is the author…
Read interviewJG: Before we speak about the two incredible family libraries that have been in your family for 9 generations, (and which now also serve as museums) would…
Read interviewOur guest interviewee is Ros Schwartz, a prolific, prodigious and prize-winning literary translator (French>English), as this interview and her CV below make clear. Ros was awarded the…
Read interviewYanky Fachler kindly acceded to our request and travelled to Cambridge to interview Professor Nicholas de Lange, the English translator of over a dozen books by Israeli…
Read interviewThis column has been expanded in scope to include all linguists, not just translators. This allows us to interview socio-linguists, juridical terminologists, etc. But no-one we ever…
Read interviewGaston Dorren, a Netherlands-based writer and linguist, has published three Dutch books on language. One of these was published in English as Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty…
Read interviewOur current guest, Annie Freud is a distinguished British poet and one of the members of the Freud lineage to gain fame for their intellectual achievements. She…
Read interviewShaul Ladany, 83, qualifies as a wordsmith on account of his knowledge of 8 or 9 languages (in 3 alphabets – Cyrillic, Latin and Hebrew). But readers…
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