Shaul Ladany, 78, our interviewee of the month, qualifies as a linguist on account of his knowledge of 8 or 9 languages (in 3 alphabets – Cyrillic, Latin and Hebrew). But readers may find equal interest in a life-story filled with adventures and achievements (both scholastic and sporting). For this reason, in the following […]
Linguist of the month of September,
Shaul Ladany Read Post »
L'interviewé/e L'intervieweur/euse 1/20 Christina Khoury Jonathan G. 2/20 Charles Moncrieff(entretien imaginaire) Jean Findlay 3/20 La famille Hulse Jonathan G. 4/20 Viktor Lazić Jonathan G. 5/20 Aileen Clark 6/20 Guénola Pellen 7/20 Sharlee Bradley Isabelle Pouliot 8/20 Gian-Paolo ACCARDO Nathalie GREFF-SANTAMARIA 9/20 Anthony BULGER Éditions Assimil 10/20 Nicolas RAGONNEAU Anthony BULGER
D'autres contributeurs et contributrices au fil de 2020: Thibaut BOUXIERE Magdalena CHRUSCIEL Michelle DRUON Nadine GASSIE Brian HARRIS CynthiaHAZELTON Tina KOVER Jean LECLERCQ Françoise LE MEUR Dominique MATAILLET René MEERTENS Isabelle POULIOT Joëlle VUILLE Elsa WACK
The following interview was conducted between Los Angeles and London. Photo: Ian Cole You graduated in physics from Cambridge University, but it appears that at an early stage you switched the focus of your interests to music. Yes, I had always sung and been involved in choral music, at school and university, where there
The linguist (and musician) of the month – Christopher Goldsack Read Post »
–-S. E. Gontarski Waiting for Godot has been a plural, bicultural, international work from its inception. The play was written in French in 1948 as En attendant Godot, between the novels Malone meurt (1948, Malone Dies, 1956) and L'Innommable (1950, The Unnamable, 1958), by an Irishman imbued with the biculturalism of his native Ireland and
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Gregory Rabassa New Directions; First Edition 2005 Review Today's guest is Helen Oclee-Brown, a commercial translator from French and Spanish into English. Helen has an undergraduate degree in modern languages from the University of Southampton and a master’s degree in specialised translation from the University of Westminster. After working in
If This Be Treason, Translation and Its Dyscontents: A Memoir. By Gregory Rabassa Read Post »
