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 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 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 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 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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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 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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