Hello from the American Literary Translators Association conference in Arizona!

Tonight was the annual theater-translation event: "Cold Beers and Cold Readings," including part of my translation of "Women on Radio" by Cristina Clemente. Some people are so good at unrehearsed performances! #ALTA48

Today's grammar lesson...

What better place to work on translating a stage play into English than in the Drama Book Shop in New York? Soaking up the creative energy...

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In the past, when I gave lectures based on a book, it was always one I had written and I knew the content inside out. But now, in the US, I'm the public face of a 600-page book written by someone else, which I translated into English.

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I'm now translating a wonderful new realist-drama play from Catalonia for a client: "Hands" by Llàtzer Garcia is a two-hander about a husband and wife, about recovery from mental illness, and about being caught between personal and professional needs. #theater #theatre #teatre #translation #català

In 99 degree weather, I'm pretty sure ice cream counts as "health food."

And that's not counting PDFs and other electronic dictionaries.

Online resources vanish, but physical books and physical media (that gets backed up) stick around.

Collecting dictionaries is definitely a habit, but I have it under control. I think. Maybe. These are just some of them... I translate texts from different eras in six language pairs, so I need lots of reference material. 😃

Woohoo! I was just hired to translate these wonderful new plays from Spain: Cristina Clemente's "Women on Radio" and Llàtzer Garcia's "Hands: An Imperfect Love Story." 😃 🎭

Both were written in Catalan and the translations are funded by the Institut Ramon Llull.

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