Twelve or so years ago when I was studying for a Master of Translation Studies degree, I read set works by the New Caledonian author Claudine Jacques, and as part of the course I visited her island for two weeks and even had lunch in her home. Choosing texts for my translation assessment was simple…
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This week the generous people at Translators Aloud published my recording of a reading from “The Wolf”, my translation of “Le Loup” by Marcel Aymé. The translation was published in 2018 in Delos Journal. On the recording you’ll hear the first five or so minutes of the story, and for the rest you’ll need to…
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This week my translation of Marcel Aymé’s short story, ‘Le Temps mort’, or ‘Dead Time’, was published in Delos Journal Vol. 36 No. 1 (at Florida University). It’s available only to subscribers. The link is here. This publication of my translation has been a long long time coming, more than three years after my first…
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Today I discovered a video of myself reading from my translation, “Madame Gorgibus”, a short story in Jean Lorrain’s collection, Contes pour lire à la chandelle, or “Stories to Read by Candlelight”. Translators Aloud has a YouTube site where they publish short videos of just a few minutes each, in which literary translators read from…
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Here’s a 6-minute video of me reading my translation, “Princess Mandosiane”, by Jean Lorrain, from his collection Contes pour lire à la chandelle, “Stories to Read by Candlelight”, translated by me, published by Odyssey Books, 2019. I made the video with the idea of submitting to the YouTube site, Translators Aloud, but it was a…
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Today’s a day of firsts. It’s the first day of the first month of the new year. My translation of Catulle Mendès’ story, “Le Soir d’une fleur”, has just been published in the first edition of a new literary journal, Book of Matches. The story in English, “A Flower’s Evening”, is about a small ragged…
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About two years ago, late in 2018, Delos Journal at Florida University published “The Wolf”, my translation of Marcel Aymé’s short story, “Le Loup”. Enough time has passed since the publication that I can now give everyone access to a copy of the story, or at least a copy of the uncorrected proofs… Click here…
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I’ve been practising recording my own work, that is, my translated stories, with the goal of publishing them as a marketing strategy. Here’s a recording where I read from ‘The Lydian’ of 1882, originally by Théodore de Banville: My translated story was published in 2018 in the online journal Black Sun Lit. You can…
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Today my translation of a time-travel short story by Théodore de Banville, ‘Fire Stealer’, has been published by the online literary journal, Bewildering Stories. The story is free to read here. When you get to the end you’ll find a link to three challenge questions written by the journal editor, questions for the thinking man…
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I had to spend a semester in France: Patricia Worth
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