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 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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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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Interview with Welsh wordsmith (and forensic linguist) John Olsson
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…
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Interview with British linguist (and food, architecture and film critic) Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades, a British intellectual, has established a solid reputation with public both within Britain and beyond its borders, in particular in the fields of food, architecture,…
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Interview with British wordsmith (author, translator and professor of translation studies) David Bellos
David 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…
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Interview with British wordsmith (and professor of translator studies) Geraldine Brodie
LMJ: 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…
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Interview with British wordsmith (and author) Julia Cresswell
The following interview with Julia Cresswell was conducted by Julian Maddison. Julia and Julian – the interviewer and the interviewee – not only have similar first names,…
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Interview with wordsmith (and translator) Tina Kover
The 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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