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‘We are not the space we live in’ [book review]
Our first review! Thank you, Eleanor, for your careful reading and insightful writing. Looking forward to following this blog.
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Rough Hands, Tender Souls
Late in the process of translating a novel, in trying to work out the best way of expressing in English a metaphorical turn of phrase by the narrator, I asked the author earnestly: Regarding the sandpapery hands, are the mosquito and hornet the tender souls in this image? And the author responded: nobody but us…
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Sarajevo: Writing and Translating a City in Wartime (October 11, 2019, UNC)
For anyone in the Durham – Chapel Hill area with lunchtime free on Friday — I’ll be appearing with noted literary translator Ellen Elias-Bursac on a panel called Sarajevo: Writing and Translating a City in Wartime, co-sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Theatrical Translation as Creative…
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Doing is better than stewing
This is the danger of getting enough sleep — so many thoughts, so little time! What shall I do today? (Assuming I don’t shelve everything and watch baseball with my mom — Phillies currently losing to the Yankees in spring training.) I listened to Radiolab while eating breakfast (I’ll admit it, breakfast at 1 pm,…
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Looking back, thinking ahead
Happy New Year [plus or minus 18 days]! I’ve been thinking of you and meaning to write for [insert as appropriate: days, weeks, months, years]! I’m so sorry I haven’t responded to your [insert as appropriate: birthday card, Christmas card, New Years’ greetings, LinkedIn request] [insert if appropriate: from last year], but I’ve been tied…
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Finalist!
Winner: “Danica Mae” and other poems, by Jim Pascual Augustin Finalists: “Meat” by Ilija Đurović, translated by Paula Gordon Five poems by Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, translated by Karen Kovacik Lunch Ticket is a literary and art journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles. They host The Gabo Prize for Literature in…
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Spanish word of the day
This morning my sister sent me an example sentence from her Spanish Word of the Day e-mail. The word was nimio (m), nimia (f) — meticulous. How did they find out about me?
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End of an era
Endings are bittersweet. I’ve been working with Svetolik Paul Djordjević as an editor and proofreader on his Serbian and Croatian–English Medical Dictionaries since 2003. This summer we closed out the project with the publication of his English into Serbian Medical Dictionary. Twelve years is a long time! In that time we both moved — me…
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P is for Praise
If you’ve ever been praised by a colleague, teacher, mentor, or friend, you’ll understand how I feel about this message I got last night from my colleague, teacher, mentor, and friend, Svetolik Paul Djordjević. Hi, Paula, I finished the batch (A to E) last Thursday. All I can say is that you were born to…