Interview with American wordsmith and translator Sharlee Bradley
Upon the occasion of the recent retirement at 90 years of age of translator Sharlee Merner Bradley, after a long and fruitful career, we reproduce here an…
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Interview with Serbian wordsmith, attorney, library curator, author, story-teller and tourist guide Viktor Lazić
JG: 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…
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Interview with The Hulse/Rozenblum family – San Francisco linguists
Francisco and Merav, our guest linguists of the month, live in San Francisco. I have known them for many years and seen at first hand their skills…
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Imaginary interview with Scots translator Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff
Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930) is still known as ‘the man who translated Proust’. Appropriately, the British prize for translation from French is known as the ‘Scott…
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Interview with Wordsmith Christina Khoury
The interview resulted from a stay by your faithful blogger at the Beit Shalom (House of Peace) Hotel, where Christina works. The undersigned overheard Christina conducting three…
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Interview with Israeli-American wordsmith (and translator/interpreter) Jonathan Goldberg
For several years distinguished linguists were interviewed every month for our French sister blog, Le Mot juste en anglais. Readers therefore understandingly will ask : How have…
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Interview with wordsmith (and food translator) Carmella Abramowitz Moreau
Carmella Abramowitz Moreau is a translator specializing in culinary translations from French, and living with her family in the 3rd arrondisement of Paris. The interview that follows…
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Interview with British wordsmith (and translator) Ros Schwartz
Our 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…
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John Ashbery Wendy Ayres-Bennett Lina Choueri Anthea Bell David Bellos Sir Thomas Bodley Geraldine Brodie Julia Cresswell David Crystal Brian Harris Peter Hicks Marjolijn de Jaager Nicolas…
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Interview with Canadian wordsmith (and professor of translation studies) Sherry Simon
JG: Your parents were born in Toronto. You spoke English at home and despite studying French at school, your first significant exposure to French came in your…
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