I’ve been working with a new office buddy this month, but what about you, do you work alone or with company? Anyway here are the most popular news articles, blog posts, and stories about language and translation for June.
- Translators and interpreters are the unacknowledged facilitators of the world, but we rarely get our due
- The International Booker Prize – announced on 2nd June this year – is an award for translated fiction that is gradually growing in stature
The winner of the2021 International Booker Prize At Night All Blood Is Black is about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in World War I (Credit: Corbis via Getty Images)
- Kaitlin Rees, a literary translator from Vietnamese, talks about magic parallels in translation in this interview, while Bulgarian translator Stefan Rusinov says all literature is worth investigating
- Fifty Sounds recounts Polly Barton’s experiences in Japan as she learned the language and became a literary translator. Here’s a book review
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton recounts her experiences in Japan (Picture: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images)
- Corinne McKay gives some tips on how to go on holiday while still managing our businesses
- Newly proposed legislation in Quebec may boost demand for translation into Canadian French
The new Quebec language reform bill may boost demand for Canadian French translation
- Is French set to replace English as the EU’s ‘working language’ when France takes over European Council presidency in 2022?
- What makes someone bilingual? There’s no easy answer
There are a million different ways to be bilingual
(Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, CC BY-SA)
- Language matters, so shouldn’t we be more selective about what we label ‘hate’, and what we pathologise as ‘phobia’?
- As endangered languages die out, so does knowledge of medicinal plants
A Sateré-Mawé leader gathers caferana, a native plant of the Amazon rainforest used as a medicinal herb (Photograph: Ricardo Oliveira/AFP/Getty)
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