Tag: Translation
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Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in ‘Peripheral’ Cultures
Last year, I translated a piece from French to English for Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in ‘Peripheral’ Cultures by Diana Roig-Sanz and Reine Meylaerts published by Springer. It’s wonderful to see the translation in print along with the contributions from other authors.
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Residency at the Vertalershuis Amsterdam
As a translator, you constantly have to make decisions on what to do about these little things. Do you just translate them as they are and preserve the Belgian-ness of the book? Or do you convert them into something more familiar for your target readership? If you translate “hostie” to “satellite wafer”, are you then…
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Translating The Chronicles
“Language is my way of getting a grip on things, of maintaining control in certain situations. Your body is bombarded with zillions of sensory impressions, and by giving them a name, you make them one-dimensional again, manageable,” wrote best-selling Belgian author Lize Spit in her second blog post for The Chronicles. Actually, this is my…
