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Miguel Torga on translators

4 June 20184 June 2018

I first translated this quotation from Miguel Torga (1907-1955, an important twentieth-century Portuguese writer and poet) about three and a half years ago. I mistranslated the last sentence. Here is the re-hash. Aside from the corrected last sentence, I made a couple of other stylistic changes. Traduzir é, primordialmente, um acto de amor. Só quem […]

Comma removal

2 June 2018

It is called constantly honing one’s craft – an obligation which translators have to themselves and to their readers.

Translating the Vine Atlas

26 May 201828 October 2021

Preamble Re-hashes of older blog posts and various guest posts I have written will appear here with a #flashbackfriday tag from now on. The first flashback post, Passionate about getting things right, appeared here last week. I cannot promise I will always publish on a Friday, but the fricative-heavy hashtag will serve to indicate that […]