"Being a translator is an invisible and underrated profession. [...]
It is this lack of awareness, the invisibility and lack of insight into our skills, that is making the machine takeover so easy. [...] But in my view there is no price that can be put on the damage that is being done by AI to text production."
Lisa Fransson, translator and author
Available from 1 November: another thriller I translated, by the same author as the last one, Catherine Cooper.
This time we're going skiing in the French Alps, but there's another storm, which means nobody can leave the chalet... 🏠 🇫🇷 🏔️ ⛷️ 🍷 🍄 🌨️ 😱
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Available on 1 August: my thriller translation, Het resort by Catherine Cooper (original title: The Island).
Scuba diving in the Maldives sounds like fun, until strange things start happening and you're stuck on an island in a thunderstorm... 🏝️ 🇲🇻 🐢 🥽 🐠 🐡 ⛈️ 😱
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Dit moest ik even kwijt (en NRC plaatste het zowaar)... 😉
(Letter I sent to the newspaper because they didn't even bother to name the translator in an interview with the Dutch nominee for the International Booker Prize, a prize for writers AND their translators.)
Another art catalogue I translated an article for. Dutch artist Tjalf Sparnaay's hyperrealistic paintings are quite amazing.
More information about the artist and the exhibition:
https://museumjan.nl/exhibitions/tjalf-sparnaay-the-bigger-picture
With the anniversary exhibition The Bigger Picture , Museum JAN in Amstelveen celebrates the 70th birthday of creative artist Tjalf Sparnaay. More than 60 works from various museum and private collections provide a special overview of his oeuvre: from his initial illustrations for postcards to his
Out next month: my Dutch translation of Making Peace with Depression by Sarah Rayner.
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Thrilled (lame pun intended...) to see that my first thriller #translation* will be out on 1 November: I translated Michelle Frances' The Boyfriend into Dutch.
*100% human-translated
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Hello everyone!
I am a #freelance #zzp #translator based in the #Netherlands, translating from #English and #German into #Dutch. My areas of specialisation in #translation are #advertising/ #transcreation, #fashion and #beauty, #art and #culture, #travel and #tourism, and #BookTranslations. I love #language, #books, #museums and #London.
