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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…
Read interviewCarmella 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…
Read interviewOur 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…
Read interviewJG: 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…
Read interviewYanky 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…
Read interviewThis 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…
Read interviewGaston 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…
Read interviewOur 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…
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 interviewLMJ: You are a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Did you study…
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…
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