S02E5: Peter Bergsma " The profession of a translator is creativity in itself"

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The Visible Art of Translation

The INCREC project

22 episodes

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Welcome to the Visible Art of Translation podcasts! These series of podcasts are part of the EU-funded INCREC project at the University of Groningen. Our focus is creativity, translation and technology in literary and audiovisual translation. Our goal is to give visibility to the often invisible skills, role and voice of professional translators. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the ERC Consolidator Grant n. 101086819.

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S02E5: Peter Bergsma " The profession of a translator is creativity in itself"

The Visible Art of Translation

28 minutes 29 seconds

5 months ago

S02E5: Peter Bergsma " The profession of a translator is creativity in itself"

Nastja Shaboltas from the INCREC project interviewed

Peter Bergsma. Peter Bergsma (1952) studied at the Institute for Translation Studies in Amsterdam and has been a literary and journalistic translator from English and French since 1977. He translated some 90 books by, among others, Maurice Blanchot, J.M. Coetzee (20 titles), Graham Greene, Lydia Davis, Ernest Hemingway, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denis Johnson, Nastassja Martin, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, John Steinbeck, George Steiner, Mark Twain and Thornton Wilder. From 1997 until his retirement in June 2018, he was the managing director of the Amsterdam Translators’ House, a part of the Dutch Foundation for Literature.