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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…
Read interviewTrudy 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…
Read interviewGrant 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…
Read interviewOur 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…
Read interviewThe 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…
Read interviewFor 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…
Read interviewI 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…
Read interviewSiegfried 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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