Orator, Thinker, Networker, Tech & geopolitics commentator, 13th President of International Federation of Translators FIT (2014-17), Tanguero, Opera lover.
Joined February 2015
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𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha: Seiya Tanase reviews Zhang Yueran's 𝐶𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑛 (World Editions, 2026), trans. Jeremy Tiang. "In the translator’s note that follows the novel, Tiang describes Zhang’s post-1980s generation as inhabiting an 'in-between space' that..."
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🇸🇮 Nearly 30 years of literary #translator training at risk in Slovenia
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Translated fiction sales in the UK have risen by 36% in three years. Andrew Dickson explores the readers, independent publishers, and literary prizes behind the growing appetite for stories from around the world.
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Police say they're assessing how to use emerging technology after report of 'risky' AI use
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Findet im StarTransit #Webinar am 19.11. heraus, was Ihre Augen für eine gesunde Sehkraft brauchen und was Sie dafür tun können! bdue-wbfv.de/w6883 #xl8 /lf
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Your Guide to International Careers | Open Positions at the UN, EU and Think-Tanks in Europe | The Ultimate Guide to Getting a Job at the UN theunbrief.substack.com/p/yo…
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Why is the Bible translatable?
From the Global Bible Translations Now at Our FingerTIPs podcast with the remarkable Dru Johnson of The Biblical Mind about Translation Insights & Perspectives
See more at youtu.be/qddJoPICzM0?si=0UfT… or at link in bio
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"Inoue’s literature almost invariably focusses on the smallest, tenderest, and perhaps most beautifully confusing of human actions": translator J. Martin Homan on the story by Yasushi Inoue in this week's issue. newyorker.com/books/this-wee…
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The @EU_Commission 🇪🇺 opens a EUR 10m funding call for #multilingual #AI 🤖 media infrastructure incorporating #translation 🌐 and multilingual content distribution, with applications due in February 2027. 📅
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2026 Translating Europe Forum (In-person + Online)
“Language professionals matter: Adding value in a changing industry”
Brussels🇧🇪🇪🇺: @EU_Commission, 11-13 November.
Free registration: translation.ec.europa.eu/new…
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Just back from the conference «Peace and Literature» in Amed/Diyarbakir. I proposed the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights as a reference for the present dialogue for a process of peace.
@institutkurde @KurdPen @PENCatala @pen_int @BerivanDosky
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Yasushi Inoue’s fiction turns its attention to lives at the margins of history.
Translator J. Martin Holman discusses the late Japanese writer’s tender portraits of ordinary people and his work bringing The Death of a Certain Woman to English.
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🇳🇿 New Zealand police investigators misused artificial intelligence #translation tools numerous times in seriously risky ways, official documents show
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A barking dog sends a woman across the Berlin Wall. In Büchner Prize winner Emine Özdamar’s Berlin, chocolates freeze, Das Kapital turns to ice, and poetry burns through the cold.
Read this excerpt, translated by Tegan Raleigh for our Fall issue, out now! tinyurl.com/ybxwdw4x
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#Translator Pablo Martín Sánchez won the National Prize for Best Translation and €30,000 for #translating Georges Perec into #Catalan
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“Languages survive not through purity, but through contact.”
Writing in Basque, Spanish, and English, Kirmen Uribe describes his approach as “self-writing” rather than self-translation, with each language reshaping the text and opening up possibilities.
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Sixty organisations signed up in New York to make AI work in the languages of 3.4 billion people. The AI labs. The World Bank. An archbishop.
No translation company. No interpreting firm. No industry association.
Nobody asked the language industry.
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Voters in the US state of Idaho 🇺🇲 passed an amendment to make English the state’s only official language. The amendment 📜 raises questions about local public services for Idaho LEPs amid federal cuts to language access.
#Midterms #LEP #LanguageAccess
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"France’s textile industry was originally established under Henri IV (who reigned from 1589 to 1510) to compete with Ottoman and Persian manufacturers. The royals had expensive taste in textiles, but with so much French treasure being sent east to pay for such goods, they thought it would be wiser to create a local industry from the ground up. According to Pierre Dupont’s Treatise on the Manufacture of Turkish Carpets (1632), before French artisans could compete, they first had to learn how to replicate the knotting techniques of their Eastern rivals. That plush texture required a density in the knots that the French had to learn through corporate espionage. Dupont traveled abroad to spy on Turkish weavers, then brought back carpets for his technicians to take apart row by row, which helped them redesign more heavy-duty looms that could support the weight."
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The fourth story of our RPR: Spotlight series is out! Don't miss "Kissing Lee Chang-dong" by She Donghao translated by Bo Lan. paper-republic.org/pubs/read…
