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Zo lijp dit. VVD is overal (en de PvdD wordt genegeerd).
September 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Zo lijp dit. VVD is overal (en de PvdD wordt genegeerd).
This Thursday afternoon, David McKay and I will be discussing our translation of David Van Reybrouck's REVOLUSI with writer and translator Jane Davis in a free online event:
societyofauthors.org/event/how-we...
societyofauthors.org/event/how-we...
How we translate - in conversation with David Colmer and David McKay - The Society of Authors
Grab a cuppa and get to know translators David Colmer and David McKay. David and David will be in conversation with Jane Davis to discuss their work and career and to offer a glimpse into their creati...
societyofauthors.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This Thursday afternoon, David McKay and I will be discussing our translation of David Van Reybrouck's REVOLUSI with writer and translator Jane Davis in a free online event:
societyofauthors.org/event/how-we...
societyofauthors.org/event/how-we...
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On WWB, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp shares new translated #WorldKidLit—keep reading for a thread of all her picks, sure to keep kids and teens reading all summer. buff.ly/CJvMHDO
May 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
On WWB, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp shares new translated #WorldKidLit—keep reading for a thread of all her picks, sure to keep kids and teens reading all summer. buff.ly/CJvMHDO
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
April 1, 2025
Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
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Vriendelijke herinnering dat zonder vertalers van Nederlandse literatuur, internationaal succes van Nederlandse auteurs onmogelijk zou zijn. Zonder vertalers die met passie en toewijding voor een hongerloon werken, geen Europese literatuur.
Gefeliciteerd met de nominatie, @michehut.bsky.social!
Gefeliciteerd met de nominatie, @michehut.bsky.social!
Gerda Blees staat op de shortlist van de @dublinlitaward.bsky.social 2025! Blees en vertaalster Michele Hutchison staan op de lijst met Selva Almada (vertaling Annie McDermott, Michael Crummey, Percival Everett, Paul Lynch en David Mason. Bekijk de lijst & lees meer!
athenaeumscheltema.n...
athenaeumscheltema.n...
March 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Vriendelijke herinnering dat zonder vertalers van Nederlandse literatuur, internationaal succes van Nederlandse auteurs onmogelijk zou zijn. Zonder vertalers die met passie en toewijding voor een hongerloon werken, geen Europese literatuur.
Gefeliciteerd met de nominatie, @michehut.bsky.social!
Gefeliciteerd met de nominatie, @michehut.bsky.social!
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February 28, 2025
February 28, 2025
Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
February 28, 2025
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#Poetry #HBReviewoftheWeek FAST CHEETAH, SLOW TORTOISE by Bette Westera; illus. by Mies van Hout; trans. by @davidcolmer.bsky.social (@ebyrbooks.bsky.social): "The combination of bold, dynamic art and lively first-person poems makes this a great choice to read aloud" www.hbook.com/story/review...
February 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#Poetry #HBReviewoftheWeek FAST CHEETAH, SLOW TORTOISE by Bette Westera; illus. by Mies van Hout; trans. by @davidcolmer.bsky.social (@ebyrbooks.bsky.social): "The combination of bold, dynamic art and lively first-person poems makes this a great choice to read aloud" www.hbook.com/story/review...
Now in summer! www.letterenfonds.nl/ontdek/liter...
Literaire Vertaaldagen
www.letterenfonds.nl
February 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Now in summer! www.letterenfonds.nl/ontdek/liter...
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"If translation is a relationship, I’d rather be single. What if translation were a person? If it were, then it would be male, it would most definitely be avoidant. Is that a familiar feeling?" wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... #RosalindHarvey @wwborders.bsky.social #literature #translation
Is That a Familiar Feeling? - Words Without Borders
In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the un...
wordswithoutborders.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"If translation is a relationship, I’d rather be single. What if translation were a person? If it were, then it would be male, it would most definitely be avoidant. Is that a familiar feeling?" wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... #RosalindHarvey @wwborders.bsky.social #literature #translation
flashback to the first English publication of poems from I WISH by Toon Tellegen and Ingrid Godon, Elsewhere Editions, 2020, mailchi.mp/mptmagazine/...
From the Archive: Toon Tellegen and Ingrid Godon, translated by David Calmer from Dutch
mailchi.mp
January 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
flashback to the first English publication of poems from I WISH by Toon Tellegen and Ingrid Godon, Elsewhere Editions, 2020, mailchi.mp/mptmagazine/...
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Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis
IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis.
archive.is/2024.12.23-1...
IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis.
archive.is/2024.12.23-1...
'When you enter Gaza, you are God': Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
December 24, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis
IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis.
archive.is/2024.12.23-1...
IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis.
archive.is/2024.12.23-1...
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👇Proud to be Irish.
December 16, 2024 at 1:24 PM
👇Proud to be Irish.
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Here we are: DELTRANS. Dutch-to-English translators getting together to discuss the sudden drop-off in work, the uses and misuses of AI, editing and publicity. Thanks to the Amsterdam Vertalershuis for hosting us. @davidcolmer.bsky.social (anyone else on bsky yet?)
December 8, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Here we are: DELTRANS. Dutch-to-English translators getting together to discuss the sudden drop-off in work, the uses and misuses of AI, editing and publicity. Thanks to the Amsterdam Vertalershuis for hosting us. @davidcolmer.bsky.social (anyone else on bsky yet?)
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In het verlengde van mijn column: de gedachte dat 'iedereen met een paspoort' volwaardig Nederlander is, kan ook naar de prullenbak. Bente Becker (VVD) is aan het radicaliseren en maakt iedereen verdacht op basis van genen. Doodeng.
December 4, 2024 at 7:03 AM
In het verlengde van mijn column: de gedachte dat 'iedereen met een paspoort' volwaardig Nederlander is, kan ook naar de prullenbak. Bente Becker (VVD) is aan het radicaliseren en maakt iedereen verdacht op basis van genen. Doodeng.
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Nice to see this recognition for translators.
Of course, Jon Fosse himself is also a translator – he translated The Plains by Gerald Murnane.
(Fosse also married his Slovakian translator.)
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Of course, Jon Fosse himself is also a translator – he translated The Plains by Gerald Murnane.
(Fosse also married his Slovakian translator.)
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators
The award will be the biggest of its kind in Europe and aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Nice to see this recognition for translators.
Of course, Jon Fosse himself is also a translator – he translated The Plains by Gerald Murnane.
(Fosse also married his Slovakian translator.)
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Of course, Jon Fosse himself is also a translator – he translated The Plains by Gerald Murnane.
(Fosse also married his Slovakian translator.)
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Former Dutch poet laureate Ramsey Nasr on recent events in Amsterdam www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43K...
Ramsey Nasr: DE MACCABI HOOLIGANS & HET ANTISEMITISME IN NEDERLAND
YouTube video by HadiH
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Former Dutch poet laureate Ramsey Nasr on recent events in Amsterdam www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43K...
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#Poetry translators are the unsung heroes of literature.
An overview of Flemish poets selected by @michehut.bsky.social and translated by herself and @davidcolmer.bsky.social, Donald Gardner, Judith Wilkinson, David McKay and @garr.bsky.social.
thehighwindowpress.com/2024/08/24/flemish-poetry/
An overview of Flemish poets selected by @michehut.bsky.social and translated by herself and @davidcolmer.bsky.social, Donald Gardner, Judith Wilkinson, David McKay and @garr.bsky.social.
thehighwindowpress.com/2024/08/24/flemish-poetry/
November 4, 2024 at 7:43 AM
#Poetry translators are the unsung heroes of literature.
An overview of Flemish poets selected by @michehut.bsky.social and translated by herself and @davidcolmer.bsky.social, Donald Gardner, Judith Wilkinson, David McKay and @garr.bsky.social.
thehighwindowpress.com/2024/08/24/flemish-poetry/
An overview of Flemish poets selected by @michehut.bsky.social and translated by herself and @davidcolmer.bsky.social, Donald Gardner, Judith Wilkinson, David McKay and @garr.bsky.social.
thehighwindowpress.com/2024/08/24/flemish-poetry/
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Collega Lotte Bosch is jarig! Dus we trakteren. Op Athenaeum.nl: 10% op alle buitenlandse boeken, met de kortingscode JARIG. Zoals op de Engelse titels in haar favorietenlijstje. Ze licht ze toe, van Scrumple en Quicksand tot Breakwater en All Fours.
www.athenaeum.nl/rec...
www.athenaeum.nl/rec...
July 2, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Collega Lotte Bosch is jarig! Dus we trakteren. Op Athenaeum.nl: 10% op alle buitenlandse boeken, met de kortingscode JARIG. Zoals op de Engelse titels in haar favorietenlijstje. Ze licht ze toe, van Scrumple en Quicksand tot Breakwater en All Fours.
www.athenaeum.nl/rec...
www.athenaeum.nl/rec...
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Fancy a trim? I know a bloke... Gerbrand Bakker's 'The Hairdresser's Son', translated by David Colmer, courtesy of Scribe Publications :)
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/t...
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/t...
‘The Hairdresser’s Son’ by Gerbrand Bakker (Review)
I first became aware of Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker's work back in 2013 when I read his novel The Detour, which went on to win the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize that year. Since then, I've tried...
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com
June 6, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Fancy a trim? I know a bloke... Gerbrand Bakker's 'The Hairdresser's Son', translated by David Colmer, courtesy of Scribe Publications :)
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/t...
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/t...
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Tusiata Avia (and PM's award winner): This is not a Satire ("This is how it starts, you think. Little by little, and then one day, BOOM, freedom of expression - which is the arts - gone." open.substack.com/pub/tusiata/...
This is not a Satire
This is our government on the arts
open.substack.com
April 30, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Tusiata Avia (and PM's award winner): This is not a Satire ("This is how it starts, you think. Little by little, and then one day, BOOM, freedom of expression - which is the arts - gone." open.substack.com/pub/tusiata/...
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So the way the IDF chose targets was (1) an AI spat out tens of thousands of names of potential Hamas members; (2) those people's homes were made bombing targets; (3) no one bothered to review any of it or even see if the person was home; (4) the potential for civilian casualties didn't matter.
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...
www.972mag.com
April 3, 2024 at 5:56 PM
So the way the IDF chose targets was (1) an AI spat out tens of thousands of names of potential Hamas members; (2) those people's homes were made bombing targets; (3) no one bothered to review any of it or even see if the person was home; (4) the potential for civilian casualties didn't matter.
