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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…
Read interviewThis month’s guest read history and educational psychology in England, his home country. He holds an honours degree in educational psychology from the University of London.
Read interviewBy way of a brief description, the Caribbean archipelago is a chain of idyllic islands in North and South America, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. Essentially, the…
Read interviewJG: You were born in Indonesia, which at that time was the Dutch East Indies [1]. What brought your parents there?
Read interviewOur guest translator, Alan Hoffman, a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School [1] , was for nearly 50 years a trial lawyer in Boston. He…
Read interviewDiane Murez, a trilingual writer born in Baltimore, studied for a year at the Gymnasium Goetheschule in Hannover on an American Field Service scholarship. After graduating summa…
Read interviewMark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, and Arthur Rimbaud. He is the author…
Read interviewOur interviewer, Susan VO is a French Interpreter with 14 years experience as a staff member and freelancer with the United Nations, the Canadian Federal Government and…
Read interviewUpon the occasion of the recent retirement at 90 years of age of translator Sharlee Merner Bradley, after a long and fruitful career, we reproduce here an…
Read interviewJG: Before we speak about the two incredible family libraries that have been in your family for 9 generations, (and which now also serve as museums) would…
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