It’s August, and that means Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) is here at last! Throughout the month, we will be speaking with author-translator duos, getting the lowdown on what it means to collaborate on a translation, how it feels to find oneself in a new language and what one discovers in and between languages. First […]
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Women in Translation Month Roundtable Interview: Part Three
It’s the last day of Women in Translation Month! For our third and final roundtable discussion featuring Aleshia Jensen, Cristina Sandu, Erin Moure, Kari Dickson, Rachel Rankin, and Kristen Renee Miller, we’re discussing translation and gender! The translators also share what they are currently working on and what books you can look forward to seeing […]
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August may be coming to an end, but we are still celebrating Women in Translation Month! As promised, we’re pleased to share part two of our three-part roundtable interview with our lovely translators. Today we’re discussing the idea of translatability—words and phrases that are lost but also gained in translation, phrases we love in specific […]
Continue readingWomen in Translation Month Roundtable Interview: Part One
Women in Translation Month is in full swing! To continue our month-long celebration we are pleased to bring you a three-part roundtable interview series featuring several women working in translation. Over the next few weeks, we will share their collective responses to a few questions we asked about their reading habits and all things translation. […]
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Happy Women in Translation Month! Women in Translation Month was launched in 2014 by book blogger Meytal Radzinski in response to her observation that women wrote only approximately 30% of books published in translation. Each August, #WITmonth highlights the work of women writers and translators from around the world. Book*hug Press is honoured to have […]
Continue readingWomen in Translation: JC Sutcliffe
This is it: our last post for Women in Translation Month! What a fun month it’s been celebrating so many wonderful women working in translation today!
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Women in Translation: In Conversation with Aimee Wall
Our celebration of Women in Translation Month continues today with Aimee Wall, translator of several books, including Vickie Gendreau’s Testament and Drama Queens and Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard’s Sports and Pastimes.
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Today’s #WITMonth interviewee is poet and translator Angela Carr, whose fourth poetry collection, Without Ceremony, is forthcoming from Book*hug on October 15, 2020.
Continue readingWomen in Translation: In Conversation with Kari Dickson
Our celebration of Women in Translation Month continues! Today, we’re in conversation with Kari Dickson!
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