Today my translation of Claude Aveline’s radio play, “La Baleine de Jonas”, or “Jonah’s Whale”, has come out in Delos Journal at the University of Florida. I invite you to check it out. It’s accompanied by a long commentary, which together with the translation represents months of unpaid work. My reward is in offering it…
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The YouTube site, Jill!, which was set up for women literary translators to read from their translations, has just published a short video of me reading a few pages from my translation of Les Cœurs barbelés, a New Caledonian novel by Claudine Jacques. The rough translation of the title is ‘Hearts Behind Barbed Wire’. It’s…
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The online literary journal, Bewildering Stories, has today published another of my translated short stories, ‘The Time of Serfdom’. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé originally wrote it as part of his collection Cœurs russes (Russian Hearts), published in 1894. The journal’s editor has introduced my translation with a mini-blurb: How did the legend begin that a post-medieval…
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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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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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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 to download a pdf…
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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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