Interview with British wordsmith (and translator) Frank Wynne
JG : 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…
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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 Language and Literature and…
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Imaginary interview with British wordsmith (philanthropist and librarian) Sir Thomas Bodley (1545 – 1613)
The Bodleian Library ("Bodley" or "the Bod") is the main research library of the University of Oxford and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It…
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Interview with British wordsmith (and educator) Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, [1] works on the history of the French language and the history of linguistic…
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Interview with wordsmith (and educator) Catriona Seth
Trudy 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…
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Interview with British wordsmith (author and educator) David Crystal
Grant 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…
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Interview with the wordsmith (and translator), the late Anthea Bell
The following interviewed was conducted in September 2015 by Julian Maddison with the world-famous translator, Anthea Bell, who passed away in October 2018.
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Interview with American wordsmith (and poet), the late John Ashbery
She 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…
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Interview with American wordsmith (and publisher) Anne Trager
Our guest wordsmith, Anne Trager, is an American, a Francophile, a literary translator, and the founder of Le French Book. This New York-based publishing house is dedicated…
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Interview with Brazilian-American wordsmith (and interpreter) Ewandro Magalhães –
JG: You were born in Belo Horizonte (Beautiful Horizon), Brazil. When we speak about your linguistic career, it will seem to the readers that that name [1]…
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Interview with Dutch-American wordsmith (and translator) Marjolijn de Jager
JG: You were born in Indonesia, which at that time was the Dutch East Indies [1]. What brought your parents there?
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Interview with British wordsmith (and historian & musician) Peter Hicks
The 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…
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Introducing WordsmithsBlog.com –
For 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…
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