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Our correspondent, Joëlle Vuille, Ph.D., holder of a law degree and a doctorate in criminology, is assistant professor of law at the University of Fribourg. Joëlle lives…
Read interviewDavid Bellos is the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University. He…
Read interviewThe following interview with Julia Cresswell was conducted by Julian Maddison. Julia and Julian – the interviewer and the interviewee – not only have similar first names,…
Read interviewThe Albertine Prize is awarded each year in New York for the best English-language translation of a work of fiction written in French. The winners of the…
Read interviewJG : I understand that you have no French family background and that your academic training in French was confined to four years of high school, followed…
Read interviewTrudy Obi holds a PhD in English literature from UC Berkeley, where she wrote a dissertation on conceptions of intellectual labor in early modern Europe. Her research…
Read interviewGrant Hamilton, translator, author of Les trucs d'anglais qu'on a oublié de vous enseigner and regular collaborator with our (French) sister-blog, Le Mot juste en anglais, spoke…
Read interviewThe following interviewed was conducted in September 2015 by Julian Maddison with the world-famous translator, Anthea Bell, who passed away in October 2018.
Read interviewShe is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Naji Naaman Literary Prize, three Pinnacle Book Awards, the International Book Award in Poetry, three Best…
Read interviewThe interview that follows was conducted in (British) English and translated into French for Le Mot juste en anglais by Silvia Kadiu, whose first contribution to this…
Read interviewFor the purposes of this blog, we prefer a wider definition, one that embraces all those who (like the undersigned, a professional translator) use words – both…
Read interviewSiegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967) was born in England to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. He was a satirical poet who also wrote prose but…
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