Interview with British wordsmith Nicholas de Lange
Yanky 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…
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Interview with American wordsmith (and poet) Jacqueline Suskin
This 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…
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Interview with Dutch wordsmith (and author) Gaston Dorren
Gaston 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…
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Interview with Lebanese wordsmith (and grammarian) Lina Choueri
LC : I was born in Mansourieh, in the Metn hills on the outskirts of Beirut. I began school before the age of 3, and studied French…
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Interview with American wordsmith (and interpreter) James Nolan
JG : You come from a cosmopolitan family and you grew up in several countries, before you settled down in the United States. Tell us about that.
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Interview with British wordsmith (and poet) Annie Freud
Our 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…
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Interview with British wordsmith (and translator) Mike Mitchell
Our choice of wordsmith this time is the well-known and prolific translator (from French and German), Mike Mitchell, who kindly granted Jonathan G. this interview. Mike lives…
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Interview with Israeli wordsmith (engineering academic and champion sportsman) Shaul Ladany
Shaul 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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Interview with British wordsmith (and musician) Christopher Goldsack
You graduated in physics from Cambridge University, but it appears that at an early stage you switched the focus of your interests to music.
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Interview with Dutch wordsmith (and tour guide) Geert Sivellis
LMJ: You have Dutch-sounding names and you live in Amsterdam, and yet you were born and grew up in Portugal. How did that happen?
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