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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Interview with multilingual translator and interpreter, Alex Tomić,
Our linguist, Alexandra was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and has lived in Belgrade, Berne (Switzerland), Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Leiden (The Netherlands). She has a BA in French…
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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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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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