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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 interview, the English original of which was published in Translorial, the journal of the Northern California Translators Association (NCTA). We present this abridged translation with the kind permission […]

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Interview with Serbian wordsmith, attorney, library curator, author, story-teller and tourist guide Viktor Lazić

I am 35 years old. I live in Belgrade. Previously I had a translation agency. (I am still a member of the Serbian Union of Scientific and Technical Translators.) I speak English, German and Russian and of course my mother tongue, Serbian.

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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 as professional translators (Spanish-Hebrew-English), as well as the trilingual skills of their son Adriel.

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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 Moncrieff Prize’. Jean Findlay, his great-great-niece, has written his biography, Chasing Lost Time, in which she shows the development of the translator going back to early childhood but also paints a warm picture of the full man.

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Interview with Wordsmith Christina Khoury

Our interviewee this month is Christina Khoury, resident of the city of Haifa, Israel. The interview resulted from a stay by your faithful blogger at the Beit Shalom (House of Peace) Hotel, where Christina works.

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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 I, Jonathan, managed to insinuate myself into this exclusive club, which is usually reserved only for the illustrious?

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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.

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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 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to French literature by the French Government.

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Alphabetical list of interviewees:

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 de Lange Andrew Leigh Gaston Dorren Annie Freud Jonathan Goldberg Christopher Goldsack Rachel Hartig Tina Kover Shaul Ladany EWandro Magalhäes Jonathan Meades Mike Mitchell Carmella Moreau James

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Interview with Canadian wordsmith (and professor of translation studies) Sherry Simon

Sherry Simon is Professor Emerita in the Department of French Studies at Concordia University.

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