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Join me at the BCLT Summer School for Literary Translation!
This summer, from 27 Aug to 2 Jul, I will be leading the week-long Literature from Flanders workshop at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School. Applications are now open! I’d love to see you there.
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The History of My Sexuality Wins Vondel Translation Prize
The History of My Sexuality by Tobi Lakmaker, translated from the Dutch by Kristen Gehrman (Granta, 2024) is the winner of the 2024 Vondel Translation Prize. The Vondel Prize is awarded every three years for an outstanding literary translation from Dutch to English. The prize was awarded by the Society of Authors and the Dutch…
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Takeaways from Translator Made Corporeal
This photo is what got me to theTranslator Made Corporeal event at the British Library in the first place. It was taken at the London Book Fair by photographer Julia Schoenstaedt as part of a portrait series revealing the rarely-seen faces behind literary translation. The project set the tone for the event, which aimed to…
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Urology under the Swastika
Did you know that hormonal treatments for certain andrological conditions were available in Nazi Germany, or that long before Viagra, erectile dysfunction was treated with something called ‘Testifortan’? Neither did I until I translated “The Suppression of Sexual Science: effects on the professional development of andrology and sexual medicine” by Dirk Schultheiss from German for the European Association…
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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…
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Back in 2010, before I knew anybody who lived in Amsterdam, I came here with my friend Michelle. She was on exchange at the University of Groningen and I was studying in Switzerland. It was an icy January, much icier than any winter the city has seen since. We skated across ice patches in the…
