Freelance Translator Research Articles

A Little Goes a Long Way

The Ecumenical ReviewVolume 60, Issue 4 p. 435-439 A Little Goes a Long Way Margaret Pater, Margaret Pater Margaret Pater, a Methodist from Great Britain, lives in Greifswald, Germany and works as a freelance interpreter and translator. For many years she worked as one of the staff interpreters at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.Search for more papers by this author Margaret Pater, Margaret Pater Margaret Pater, a Methodist from Great Britain, lives in Greifswald, Germany and works as a freelance interpreter and translator. For many years she worked as one of the staff interpreters at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute.Search for more papers by this author First published: 25 June 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.2008.tb00685.x Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume60, Issue4October 2008Pages 435-439 RelatedInformation

ART AND LAUGHTER BY SHERI KLEIN

The Art BookVolume 14, Issue 4 p. 78-78 ART AND LAUGHTER BY SHERI KLEIN SARAH LAWSON, SARAH LAWSON Freelance writer and translator, LondonSearch for more papers by this author SARAH LAWSON, SARAH LAWSON Freelance writer and translator, LondonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 30 October 2007 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8357.2007.00891_4.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume14, Issue4November 2007Pages 78-78 RelatedInformation

Economic Trends and Developments in the Translation Industry

This paper examines some of the features of the translation services sector, based on economic performance data, industry-specific surveys and developments in the formulation of international standards for translation services. A section of the paper is devoted to each of these aspects. The picture which emerges from the economic data is of a fragmented sector consisting of predominantly freelance translators on the one hand and ever-expanding international companies reaping most of the financial benefits on the other. Industry-specific surveys confirm what we learn from the economic data, and provide us with some additional information about the freelance translator’s profile and training needs. An analysis of the new European standard for translation services brings into focus some possible future directions for translation companies and freelancers. In a final section, the paper reflects critically on the relevance of these issues for translator training, using intended learning outcomes as a means of formulating the connections between the current state of the language services industry and the professionalization element in university translator training programmes.

En lisant, en écrivant – Extrait

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments Julien Gracq, born Louis Poirier in 1910, is considered one of the major French writers of the twentieth century. His training in history and geography permeates his fiction and essays. His first novel, Au chateau d’Argol (José Corti 1938), was hailed by André Breton as a true Surrealist novel. It was followed by Un beau ténébreux (1945), Le Rivage des Syrtes (1951), for which Gracq declined the prix Goncourt, and Un balcon en forêt (1958). All have been translated into English, the latter two by the poet Richard Howard. The Belgian director André Delvaux adapted “Le Roi Cophetua” (one of the three short stories that comprise La Presqu’île) into the film Rendez-vous à Bray, which received the Prix Delluc in 1971. His reflections on literature in Préférences, as well as Lettrines (1967 & 1974) and En lisant en écrivant (1980) are penetrating and frequently quoted. Gracq has also published two books of poems, Liberté grande (1947) and Prose pour l’étrangère (1952) and a play, Le Roi pécheur (1948). His latest books, La Forme d’une ville (1985), Autour des sept collines (1988) and Carnets du grand chemin (1992) are evocations of places, at the crossing between memory and description. All published by Corti, his works, in two volumes, are now also part of Gallimard's Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Lucy R. McNair is a freelance translator and doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her translation of The Poor Man's Son, an autobiographical novel by the late Algerian writer Mouloud Feraoun, was published this year by the University Press of Virginia. Alyson Waters teaches in the French Department at Yale University and is the Managing Editor of Yale French Studies. She was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2004 to translate Vassilis Alexakis's novel Les mots etrangers, which will be published in 2006 as Foreign Words by Autumn Hill Books. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.

Tiutchev and Amalie von Lerchenfeld: Some Unpublished Documents

SEER,Vol. 79,No. i, j_anuay 200 I Tiutchev and Amalie von Lerchenfeld: Some Unpublished Documents JOHN DEWEY INthe summer of I840 FedorIvanovich Tiutchev and his second wife Ernestinewere staying at the fashionableresortof Tegernsee south of Munich. Among the other guests was Amalie, the wife of Baron Alexander von Krudener, Tiutchev's former colleague at the Russian Embassy in Munich. On 2/I4 July Tiutchev wrote to his parents in Moscow: 'Vy znaete moiu priviazannost' k gospozhe Kriudener i mozhete legko sebe predstavit',kakuiuradost'dostavilomne svidanies neiu. PosleRossiieto moia samaiadavniaialyubov'.Eibylochetyrnadtsat ' let, kogda ia uvidel ee vpervye.' [You know my attachment to Madame Krudenerand may easilyimagine what ajoy it was forme to meet her. She is, after Russia, my most long-standing love. She was fourteenwhen I firstsawher.]' Amalie was born in I88, but exactly when has never been established. Some genealogical sources state that she was born in Regensburg, yet neither the Catholic nor Protestant church archives have any recordof herbaptismin thatcity. There is, however, an entry in the Protestantchurchregistersfor Regensburgof Amalie'smarriage on 3I August i 825.2 Unusually, this gives no date of birth for her, statingmerely that she was 'seventeen and a half years old'. Fromthis it is clear that she was born early in I8o8, and that Tiutchev (whose memory for dates was precise)firstsaw her at some time betweenJuly I822, when he arrived in Munich to take up his post as honorary attache at the RussianEmbassy,and Amalie'sfifteenthbirthdayin the firstfew months of I823.3 John Dewey taught Russian and German in schools and further education. Now retired from full-time teaching, he works as a freelance writer, researcher and translator. The author is most grateful to the present Count von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Kofering und Schonberg for permission to research in his archive and publish extracts in the following article; also to Herr Archivoberrat Fritsch of the Amberg State Archive for assistance in locating documents, as well as for helping to decipher and comment on some of the material. I F. I. Tiutchev, Sochineniia, ed. L. N. Kuzina and K. V. Pigarev, 2 vols, Moscow, I 984, II (volume I is entitled Stikhotvoreniia and volume II is entitled Pis'ma);L. N. Kuzina and K. V. Pigarev (eds), Pis'ma,pp. 52-54 (Russian translation of the inaccessible French original). 2 Kirchenbucharchiv Regensburg, Regensburg (Obere Stadt), 6-1 2, Seite 70, No. I 2. 3All dates in the article are New Style unless otherwise indicated. i6 JOHN DEWEY At least two poems by Tiutchev ('Iapomniu vremia zolotoe...' and 'K. N.' ['Tvoi milyi vzor, nevinnoi strasti polnyi ...']) are widely accepted by critics as having been inspired by his youthful love for Amalie;4 yet apart from the letter just quoted the only source of informationfor the affairto date has been oral accountshanded down in the familyand recordedby the poet's biographersI. S. Aksakov(his son-in-law)and K. V. Pigarev(hisgreat-grandson). Aksakovdoes not even name Amalie (shewas stillalive at the time), referringto her merely as 'a sixteen-year-oldsociety beauty (velikosvetskaia )', the addressee of 'Ia pomniu vremia zolotoe . . .', with whom Tiutchev had once exchanged watches as tokens of love. (Nikolai Khlopov, Tiutchev's peasant diad'kaor governor who accompanied him to Munich as manservant,informed the poet's mother of this in a letter, angrily complaining that in return for his watch with a gold chain Tiutchev had receivedone with a plain silkband.)5 Pigarev confirms that Aksakov's references are to Amalie von Lerchenfeld, and relates another oral tradition in the family that in January I825 Tiutchev's love for Amalie nearly embroiled him in a duel. Accordingto this account, the duel is referredto obliquelyin two of the notes writtenby Khlopov and stuckto the backof an icon which the old servant,who at thattime was retiredand livingin Moscow, had commissioned as a gift to bequeath to his former ward. These read: 'Genvaria I9 I825 goda Fedor Ivanovich dolzhen pomnit', chto sluchilos'v Minkheneot ego neskromnostii kakaiabyla opasnost'[. . .1 20 genvaria, to est'na drugoi zhe den', konchilos'blagopoluchno.' [I9 January I825 Fedor Ivanovich must remember what happened in Munich as a resultof his impropriety,and what dangertherewas [. . 20January, that is...

‘Such sweet sorrow’: the dialogo di partenza in the Italian madrigal

Journal Article ‘Such sweet sorrow’: the dialogo di partenza in the Italian madrigal Get access James Chater James Chater Who is active as a freelance editor, translator and writer, is the author of a book on Marenzio and of several articles on music, poetry and patronage in late-Renaissance Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Early Music, Volume XXVII, Issue 4, November 1999, Pages 576–599, https://doi.org/10.1093/earlyj/XXVII.4.576 Published: 01 November 1999

OOM Krisjan (Uncle Krisjan)

Oom Krisjan 1 [Uncle Krisjan] Eddy L. Pinas (bio) Translated by Francis R. Jones (bio) naast het paard beside the horse waarop hij wedde he was betting on sprak hij he spoke met de walm van kokolanpu with kokolanpu 2 smoke in zijn adem in his voice over Topibo about Topibo nu onterfd now disinherited geschonken aan imperialisten handed over to imperialists zijn geest was reeds eerder his spirit was already als exportprodukt geladen loaded for export in ijzergebuikte reuzen in iron-bellied giants zijn bezit his possessions --voorzover hij mocht bezitten --as far as he was allowed to possess-- --werd versmolten tot vliegtuigen were melted down into aircraft voor Vietnam for Vietnam zijn handen betekenden arbeid his hands meant labour voor hen to them zijn hart bauxiet his heart bauxite zijn teelballen aluinaarde his balls alum earth geen aanklacht was het it wasn’t an accusation slechts weemoed only sadness en ik sloop weg and I crept away [Dutch] Eddy L. Pinas Eddy L. Pinas, born in Paramaribo, now lives in the Netherlands. He has published a play Gerda and a collection of poetry, Te koop wegens vertrek. His stories and poems have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Nieuwe Surinaamse Verhalen and Spiegel van de Surinaamse Poëzie. He has been awarded the Sticusa Prize and won the Surinaamse Literatuur Prijsvraag. Francis R. Jones Francis R. Jones, a poet and freelance translator, teaches at the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. His publications include a translation of Hans Faverey’s work, Against the Forgetting (1994). In addition, he has translated Vyacheslav Kupriyanov’s In Anyone’s Tongue (1992) and most recently Ivan Lalic’s Fading Contact (1997). He was the joint winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1997, a prize he had also been awarded in 1991. In addition he has received the second prize of the British Comparative Literature Association Translation Award in 1994 and honorable mention in the James S. Holmes Memorial Awards (Columbia University) in 1989. He is currently at work on a study of foreign language acquisition. Footnotes 1. Te koop wegens vertrek (Paramaribo: n.p., 1975). Rpt. Spiegel van de Surinaamse Poëzie, ed. Michiel van Kempen (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1995), 436. 2. oil lamp (author’s note). Copyright © 1998 Charles H. Rowell

Kunawaraku's Song About Man-Eating Strangers

Kunawaraku’s Song About Man-Eating Strangers Anonymous 1 Translated by Francis R. Jones (bio) Jësinaewa ëhtëkëeirë Weep and wail, jekanawaimërë serë for this is the giant canoe, jarëtono jarëtono mëërë jënëtono mëërë the cannibals are coming to get you, they’re coming to eat you up. jepananakirii jesaututao tïrïkë Let’s put some salt on him, the pananakiri says, nïkatankene jënëtono the man-eater says, jesautupopa tïrï let’s put some more salt on him, jipoinje tïrï to make him taste good, nïkatankene jënëtane the meat-eater says. Jënëtono mëërë The man-eater’s coming to gobble you up. irëme (and) so: Jësinatëkë, jeponëhtëkë, sekanmeta manatirë Weep and wail, listen to me now. jekanawaimë meneti You see the giant canoe? jarëtonrë mëërë It’s coming to take you away, to carry you off, jarëtono jënëtono to carry you off and gobble you up. katoponpë mëe Just as things used to be. Jësinatëkë jeponëhtëkë Weep and wail, jënëtonrë mëe it’s the man-eaters, jesaututao rïtono they’re coming to salt you, jepëmëitao (tïïkaeken) to cook you in pepper sauce (she said again and again). Jarëtonrë mëe japëntono They’re coming to take you away jinkae japëntono to tie up your hands, jetoronpuimëtao (tïïkaeken) to tie them behind your back, Jekanawaimërë serë jepananakiri to stuff you in their mutete 3 (she said again and again). [Ancient Trio] This is the pananakiri’s big canoe. from a Dutch translation by Cees Koelewijn Francis R. Jones Francis R. Jones, a poet and freelance translator, teaches at the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. His publications include a translation of Hans Faverey’s work, Against the Forgetting (1994). In addition, he has translated Vyacheslav Kupriyanov’s In Anyone’s Tongue (1992) and most recently Ivan Lalic’s Fading Contact (1997). He was the joint winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1997, a prize he had also been awarded in 1991. In addition he has received the second prize of the British Comparative Literature Association Translation Award in 1994 and honorable mention in the James S. Holmes Memorial Awards (Columbia University) in 1989. He is currently at work on a study of foreign language acquisition. Footnotes 1. Cees Koelewijn. Tarëno tamu inponopï panpira, Trio verhalenboek (Leusden: Algemeen Diakonaal Bureau, 1984). Rpt. Spiegel van de Surinaamse Poëzie. ed. Michiel van Kempen (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1995), 38. 2. The reason for this song is the appearance of a low-flying airplane (C. Koelewijn’s note). 3. Basket (C. Koelewijn’s note). Copyright © 1998 Charles H. Rowell

Cana Conta (Preaching)

Cana Conta [Preaching] Federico Oduber (bio) Translated by Brenda F. Hasham-Hopson (bio) hesú Oh! cu mi ta despreciá how I despise esun nan cu ta cana conta those who go around saying cu bida ta un encargo di dios that life is our duty to God cu amor ta solamente un wega that love is no more than a game cu hende ta un angel despreciá that people are forsaken angels i despues, despues ku nos a muri and that later, later when we die yen di firmeza nos lo contemplá pa we will firmly contemplate eternidad the face of God for eternity cara di dios i felicidad lo ta un globo di while happiness shines like a golden globe oro den nos man in our hands Esun nan cu ta cana conta those who spread the word cu bida ta complicá na un manera complicá that life is complicated in a complicated way cu amor ta un solucion miserabel di mundo that love is this world’s miserable solution hesú Oh! cu mi ta despreciá how I despise esun nan cu ta cana conta those who go around preaching te cu nan lip ta lebe lebe di bichi until their lips are infested with worms te cu nan garganta ta hoga den lodo until their throats are filled with mud esun nan cu ta cana conta that heaven is our destiny cu nos destino ta den shelo but what do they know of heaven pero kiko nan sa di esey no more than I do of this earth. mes hopi cu mi sa di tera. [Papiamentu] Federico Oduber Federico Oduber, a native of Aruba, lives in Curaçao. He has published two volumes of his poems, Beseffend and Putesia. Brenda F. Hasham-Hopson Brenda Hasham-Hopson, born in Kentucky, has lived in Curaçao for more than twenty years where she teaches history at the International School of Curaçao. A poet and freelance translator, she has translated scholarly essays and poetry, and contributes her own work to local poetry journals and travel magazines. She coordinated a bi-montly publication Tempu and is a founding member of the Institute for the Promotion and Study of Papiamentu. Copyright © 1998 Charles H. Rowell

Rahmelweg (Rahmel Road)

Rahmelweg 1 [Rahmel Road] Chitra Gajadin (bio) Translated by Virginie M. Kortekaas (bio) maiyá bole my mother said rahmelweg cali we must still go to Rahmel road ham bhulal rahi I do not really remember who lived there huvá n ke rahe hai it was a ritual jaise ego sanskár she always took me i palvári ghumái to see family maiyá ke soc hai with the prediction: --ná ján sake kab you just never know, phir aiye-- when you’ll return hamlog shahar gaili we went to the city pl leli caught a pl-bus shaffeer gussáil the driver got mad phu t kar ná rahá there was no small change dukán band kuku the shops were closed, we had ná milal no candy for the children ghám se dhikat rastá pe bright and white was the road dhire dhire maiyá slowly she walked calte-calat pe r van ke heavy through the heat picche biná ferfi karal and finally recognized gharvá pahcán leis behind trees an unpainted house prási me n nariyar ke boklá in the yard coconut shells lay around kuttá bhonkat dau r al áil dogs ran barking to meet us patoh ghar se nikaral the daughter-in-law came outside maje me n bole lagal spoke cheerfully: mái gail bajár my mother-in-law went to the market, abbe ái she’ll be right back apane dui kursi she brought two chairs ám ke nicce láis and we sat underneath the mango tree kas-kas naryarvan pho r e lagal with firm blows she cracked open coconuts aur páni gilás me n rok leis and caught the water in a glass dhire se ham guddá cihkli, carefully I tasted jon bát sab koi pucche she already asked about Holland holland ke uppar stereotypical questions and answers jon javáb sab koi de deve hai intuitively she avoided the question: ome n bahut dhiyán lagáike when are you getting married? ná puchis: --biyáh kab kariye-- [Sarnami] [End Page 521] Chitra Gajadin Chitra Gajadin, born in Suriname, is an author and journalist living in Rotterdam. She has published four collections of poetry (Van erf tot skai, Padi voor Batavieren, De zon vloeit weg, and Opgravingen van je zelf), a collection of short stories (Bari Dopahar) and two plays (Savitri and Lucette). Virginie M. Kortekaas Virginie M. Kortekaas, a freelance translator born in the Netherlands, studies Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Her translations have been published in The Literary Review and in Modern Poetry in Translation. She is currently working on the translation of a volume of Dutch women poets. Footnotes 1. Kab ke yaad/Van wanneer een herinnering: 1977–1983 (Den Haag: NBLC, 1984). Rpt. Spiegel van de Surinaamse Poëzie, ed. Michiel van Kempen (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1995), 632. Copyright © 1998 Charles H. Rowell

TRANSLATING THE BIBLE: AN UNENDING TASK

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsKeith R. CrimDr. Crim was a member of the team of translators who prepared the Old Testament for the Good News Bible. He is a freelance editor and translator, writing and lecturing widely on issues in Bible translation.

The spirit that always denies

Higher Education QuarterlyVolume 40, Issue 3 p. 294-302 The spirit that always denies Tony Hafliger, Tony Hafliger Tony Hafliger was born and educated in Switzerland. He lectured in English at the St Gall Graduate School of Economics before turning freelance translator. Committee member of the Recontres poktiques internationales en Suisse romande, where six English poets will be guests of honour this September.Search for more papers by this author Tony Hafliger, Tony Hafliger Tony Hafliger was born and educated in Switzerland. He lectured in English at the St Gall Graduate School of Economics before turning freelance translator. Committee member of the Recontres poktiques internationales en Suisse romande, where six English poets will be guests of honour this September.Search for more papers by this author First published: June 1986 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2273.1986.tb01472.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume40, Issue3June 1986Pages 294-302 RelatedInformation

Dictionaries and reference books for the translator

Only the best translator working in a narrow specialist field and in only one or perhaps two foreign languages can do without dictionaries. For most of us dictionaries and other works of reference are essential tools. It is often thought that translators can get by on two or three dictionaries—more than once a client has asked me, when I told him that I was unable to find a word: ‘Why don't you look it up in the dictionary?’ And it is not only non‐translators who think in this way. I have come across freelance translators who work with a general Cassell's dictionary and an out‐of‐date multilingual technical dictionary. One freelance translator told me he used Patterson's (not very good and not very comprehensive) French‐English Dictionary for Chemists for all his French work!

Paul F. Bruggemann (1890-1974)

Mr. Paul F. Bruggemann, Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America and a former Editor of Arctic, died in Ottawa on 18 August 1974 after a prolonged illness. He was born on 28 February 1890 in Germany, where he received his formal education and graduated in mechanical engineering. His lifelong devotion to natural history began during his early years before the First World War, a period when he also developed an enthusiasm for aeronautics (he flew one of the early Wright machines) and succeeded in becoming a champion figure skater. His capacity for individual initiative showed itself in exploits as a motorcycle despatch rider during his war service in the German army. In 1926, he emigrated to Canada. He lived for 25 years in Lloydminster, Alberta, where he set up a small business for the repair of automobiles and farm machinery. During these years he also formed an extensive collection of moths, butterflies and plants from the surrounding region. He spent one winter alone in a small cabin in the forest country of northern Saskatchewan making a special study of English and the Scandinavian languages. In the spring of 1949, Paul Bruggemann joined the staff of the Entomological Research Institute of the Canadian Department of Agriculture as a field worker with the Northern Insect Survey. He continued in that capacity until 1954, conducting insect and plant surveys in the Dawson region of the Yukon Territory, and in the Northwest Territories in the region of Repulse Bay, Melville Peninsula, Alert and Eureka on Ellesmere Island, and Mould Bay on Prince Patrick Island. While at the latter location he discovered a new species of grass which became known as Puccinella bruggemanni. During his winter breaks from field work he photographed type specimens of Lepidoptera for the International Union of Biological Sciences. Following his retirement from the service of the Canadian Government, he edited Arctic with distinction for the eight years 1956-64. He then broke new ground by becoming a free-lance translator into English, mainly of papers on biological subjects in German, French, Norwegian, Swedish and Portuguese - work which he continued until shortly before his death. Paul Bruggemann was a member of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Lepidopterists' Society, a contributor to an annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, the joint author of three publications on arctic botany and entomology, and the editor of a work on the flora of Alaska.

Observations of a Free-Lance Translator

Observations of a Free-Lance Translator