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JG: You were born in Belo Horizonte (Beautiful Horizon), Brazil. When we speak about your linguistic career, it will seem to the readers that that name [1]…
Read interviewJG: You were born in Indonesia, which at that time was the Dutch East Indies [1]. What brought your parents there?
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 interviewPoet 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…
Read interviewAndrew 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…
Read interviewAntony Shugaar is a literary translator who specializes in English translations of French and Italian. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Read interviewBy 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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