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JG: 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 interviewShaul 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…
Read interviewOur 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…
Read interviewJonathan 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,…
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,…
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