literary translation

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 is the author of Romain Gary: A Tall Story (published by Vintage Digital, 2010), and Georges Perec: A Life in Words (published by David R. Godine, 1993) (Prix Goncourt for biography), amongst other books, and the translator of Chronicle in Stone: A Novel by Ismael Kadare (Arcade Publishing, 2011), amongst other translations.

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Interview with British wordsmith (and translator) Frank Wynne

We are honored to have as our guest wordsmith Frank Wynne, prestigious literary translator (French>English, Spanish>English). Frank has won numerous prizes for his work. He received the IMPAC award in 2002, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2095 (these two awards being shared with the authors whose works he translated) and the Scott Moncrief Prize in 2008.

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Interview with Dutch-American wordsmith (and translator) Marjolijn de Jager

The following interview was conducted by Skype between Los Angeles CA and Stamford, Connecticut.   Marjolijn de Jager – the interviewee            J.G. – the interviewer   Connecticut in fall   California in fall                 ———————————————————————————– JG: You were born in Indonesia, which at that time was

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