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Posts Tagged with ‘Translation’

  • Thinking in Other Languages

    26 Apr 2014

    As a translator of Spanish literature into English who early on felt he was a different person when speaking Spanish…

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  • On Translation

    16 Apr 2014

    As a part time practitioner of the great art of translation — mostly from Spanish to English– I am always…

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  • Leaping Linguals! Everything is Understood!

    28 Oct 2013

    Just about my favorite place to be in the world –or in time– is at the annual conference of the…

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  • Afghan Landays — Women in the Shadows

    24 Oct 2013

    In my dream I was the president. When I awoke,  I was the beggar of the world.    Ashaba, an…

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  • The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th

    18 Oct 2013

    The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades.  I spent a very fruitful year in…

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  • Behind the Red Mist — Fiction from Vietnam

    08 Apr 2013

    I first encountered Ho Anh Thai’s fiction at it’s fantastical best in the wonderful Whereabouts volume of Vietnam: A Traveller’s…

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  • To A Very Young Lady, Separated — A Poem, Jaime Gil de Biedma

    25 Mar 2013

    To A Very Young Lady, Separated In the year since you married, sweet beautiful breasts, you have found the fruits…

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  • Reading Vietnam

    02 Mar 2013

    Packed with my travel duffle for a 5 week trip to South East Asia is one of the indispensable series of books…

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  • Paradise of the Blind, a Novel from Vietnam, Duong Thu Huong

    07 Jan 2013

    Paradise of the Blind (1988) is Duong Thu Huong’s second serious novel, following a series of popular short stories, a novel…

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  • Autumn Landscape, Hồ Xuân Hương, early 19th Century, Vietnam

    12 Dec 2012

    Begining to think about a trip to South East Asia, including 12 days in Vietnam, I turned to a friend…

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  • The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, Vietnam

    11 Dec 2012

    Bao Ninh’s convention shattering novel of war, The Sorrow of War, (1991/1994) opens at war’s end.  Kien is in the…

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  • Cambodia: Through a Thief’s Eyes

    08 Dec 2012

    The first I ever heard of Angkor Wat’s fabulous temple complex was reading Andre Malraux at a young age, probably…

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