Monday, February 27, 2017

Competitions for 'Budding Translators'

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A good way to stimulate young people's interest in something is to take advantage of their natural competitiveness by running a compe...
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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Two Teenage Egyptian Interpreters

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1. Luxor 1980 At dawn one morning in 1980 or thereabouts my wife and I left our hotel in Luxor to catch an early felucca across the Ni...
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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Correction: The Oldest Depiction of an Interpreter

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One of the most popular posts on this blog has been the one of 5 July 2010, because of its photo of a detail from the the magnificent Ha...
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Monday, January 2, 2017

Guest Post by Prabha Sridevan

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( It's a pleasure and a privilege to start off the New Year with a contribution from a distinguished literary translator. Like so man...
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Sunday, December 25, 2016

My Greek Interpreter

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For light reading during the holidays, I've put a short article on my Academia.edu page. It relates an incident from my 20-year career...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

From Fairy Tale and Folk Story to Ballet and Pantomime by Translation and Adaptation

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Once upon a time, in the early years of this blog, there used to be an annual Christmas Diversion. It took the form of a history that traced...
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Monday, November 28, 2016

Translator's Affinity

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Translator's affinity (TA) isn't a new term, but it hasn't been used much. It may mean the translator's empathy with the...
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