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Contributors

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 Anthea Bell  * Anthea Bell

Anthea Bell was born in Suffolk and educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She has been a translator from French and German for many years. Her translations include works of non-fiction,...more

 Martin Bowman  * Martin Bowman

Martin Bowman is a Montreal native of Scots parentage. While studying in Edinburgh he met Bill Findlay with whom he has co-translated ten Quebec plays into vernacular Scots. Of these,...more

 Peter Bush  * Peter Bush

Peter Bush is Vice-President of the International Federation of Translators (FIT). He has translated Juan Goytisolo's autobiography, Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife , the narratives, Quarantine and The Marx...more

 Margaret Jull Costa  * Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Jull Costa has translated many Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American writers. amongst them José Saramago, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, José Régio, Bernardo Atxaga, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Carmen Martín Gaite and...more

 Mary Phil Korsak  * Mary Phil Korsak

Born and educated in England, Mary Phil Korsak (née Malone) studied at Paris and Oxford Universities and taught for many years at the Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes in...more

 Kirsten Malmkjaer  * Kirsten Malmkjaer

Kirsten Malmkjær read English and Philosophy at Birmingham University before writing a PhD there on translation theory. At Birmingham, she was director of the MA in Special Applications of Linguistics...more

 Wajdi Mouawad  * Wajdi Mouawad

Wajdi Mouawad is a playwright, actor, director, adaptor, and translator based in Montreal. Among his plays are Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons , Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes...more

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