May 11, 2007
Here's one I prepared earlier
For the past year, in between house-hunting, moving, hosting Dutch in-laws and all that sort of stuff, I have also been busy translating a Dutch novel into english. Or to be precise, translating a Dutch novel into Dunglish from where Margot at Scribe helped me wrestle it into english. And now it is practcally finished, which is both an enormous relief and a bit sad.
I can't tell you how much fun and pain literary translation is. Simultaneously.
A bonus was getting to work with Margot and the author, Ariella, from both of whom I learnt an enormous amount but also just enjoyed getting to know on a personal level.
The novel is The Butterfly Month by Ariella Kornmehl. It will be published by Scribe in July.
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