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Maureen Freely Translator, Novelist & Advocate Interview

August 20, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

BookBlast interview with Maureen Freely, the American novelist, journalist, professor and co-founder of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Georgia de Chamberet (GDC): Your early life bridged distinct worlds, moving from New Jersey to […]

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Charlie Coombe & Tina Kover Translator Interview

February 13, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

In this translator interview for BookBlast Diary, Charlie Coombe and Tina Kover talk language, literature, inspiration, success and more. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Charlie Coombe (CC): I have been a translator for […]

Philip Terry Translator Interview

July 15, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Philip Terry, translator Philip Terry, tell us a little bit about yourself. When you were growing up, what books had an impact on you? I grew up in a leafy suburb on […]

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Donald Rayfield OBE Author & Translator Interview

April 3, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Donald Rayfield OBE is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers, and won the EBRD literature prize in 2019. […]

Tim Gutteridge Translator Interview

January 11, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Tim Gutteridge, translator Tim Gutteridge, tell us a little bit about yourself I was born and brought up in Scotland but I live in Cadiz, in the south of Spain, with my […]

Sam Taylor Translator Interview

July 3, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Sam Taylor, award-winning translator Sam Taylor, tell us a little bit about yourself I grew up in England, worked as a journalist on The Observer for eight years, moved to France and […]

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Aneesa Abbas Higgins Translator Interview

April 2, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with translator Aneesa Abbas Higgins Aneesa Abbas Higgins, tell us a little bit about yourself. I grew up here in London – my father is Indian and my mother English, and at the […]

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Natasha Lehrer Translator Interview

February 9, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Natasha Lehrer, translator Natasha Lehrer, tell us a little bit about yourself. I think of myself as a Londoner born and bred, but in fact I’ve lived all over the place since […]