Inaugural BCLT translators-in-residence William Gregory and Olivia Hellewell will be writing regular blog posts over the coming months covering topics discussed with BCLT’s Cecilia Rossi. William Gregory What is a literary Translator? Am I one? When I wrote this article for Words without Borders in 2016, I wasn’t so sure. Although I had been translating […]
Literary Translation
Ticking All the Boxes
(An Extract from My BCLT 30th Anniversary Edition) Early in 2012 I was trying to figure out what I actually wanted to do with my life. I’d ended up having a so-called ‘portfolio career’ as an actor and radio journalist, with some journalistic translation and copy editing on the side. Following a period of debilitating illness, this […]
