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Interview with British wordsmith (author, translator and professor of translation studies) David Bellos

Dec 7, 2019

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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…

Interview with wordsmith (and translator) Tina Kover

Dec 7, 2019

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Jonathan Goldberg

Tina Kover has been a literary translator for nearly twenty years, translating works of both classic and modern literature including Alexandre Dumas’s Georges, the Goncourt brothers’ Manette Salomon, and Anna Gavalda’s Life, Only Better.

Interview with British wordsmith (and translator) Frank Wynne

Dec 5, 2019

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Jonathan Goldberg

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…

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

Dec 1, 2019

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Jonathan Goldberg

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…

Interview with American wordsmith (and translator) Antony Shugaar –

Oct 1, 2019

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Jonathan Goldberg

Antony Shugaar is a literary translator who specializes in English translations of French and Italian. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

Tag: literary translation

Interview with British wordsmith (author, translator and professor of translation studies) David Bellos

Interview with wordsmith (and translator) Tina Kover

Interview with British wordsmith (and translator) Frank Wynne

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

Interview with American wordsmith (and translator) Antony Shugaar –