Interview with wordsmith Ann Trager
I grew up between Ohio and the southwest of the US and for as long as I can remember I dreamed about traveling overseas. Maybe it’s because…
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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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An Interview With Jean Moorcroft Wilson – biographer of Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried 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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Interview with British wordsmith (and poet) Pascale Petit
Poet Pascale Petit, our interviewee, was born to a Welsh mother and French father and grew up between Paris and Wales. Four of her seven poetry collections…
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Interview with Andrew Leigh – British wordsmith (and translator)
Andrew Leigh, a British translator specializes in legal and commercial translations from Spanish and from French into English. Andrew owns Allegro Legal Translations, based in Sheffield, south…
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Interview with American wordsmith (and translator) Antony Shugaar –
Antony Shugaar is a literary translator who specializes in English translations of French and Italian. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
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Interview with Gennike Mayers – translator, interpreter, author, activist
By way of a brief introduction, the Caribbean archipelago is a chain of idyllic islands in North and South America, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. Essentially, the…
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