🇪🇺 Literary translator DE-EN THIS ACCOUNT IS DORMANT. Find me at the blue place, same handle.

Cambridge, England
Joined October 2015
Coming soon! #NinoHaratischwili #TheLackOfLight tr. Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin. @HarperViaBooks: This immersive, character-driven epic is one to get lost in, especially for fans of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, Isabel Allende & stories that centre female friendship.
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This beautiful novel, located between Iran and Germany, came out in the UK last week. 'The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran' ... what savagely ironic timing. Look at this gorgeous writing by author Shida Bazyar and translator @the_germanist. Please read it. shorturl.at/P0tz8
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Charlotte Collins retweeted
This is absolutely spot on and Deborah Smith, who is as humble as she is talented, played a really crucial role. I will say this again: no proper representation of international authors would be possible without outstanding translators.
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Charlotte Collins retweeted
If the translation industry becomes a machine-translation-post-editing industry, eventually there'll be no one with the skillset required to post-edit the robots because the required skills can only be obtained through years and years and millions of words of TRANSLATING.
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Fabulous!
‘Tis the season! 🔔 Whatever you’re up to at this time of year, we’d like you wish you a very Merry Christmas. 🎄
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A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 5000) Tuesday 5th December 2023. So here it is - my final picture of uninterrupted daily photographs of Cambridge - 5,000 consecutive posts over 13 years. I’m sure you’ll forgive the fact that it wasn’t taken today but a week ago today when the full moon eased itself between the turrets of an illuminated King’s College Chapel. I knew the moment I pressed the shutter that I wanted it to be the last photograph of my daily pictures not just because this frame is undoubtedly the most recognisable view in Cambridge but because for me the full moon symbolises a moment of release and completion and a time to sit in the fullness of life and feel grateful for my blessings. The full moon is also associated with madness, of which I must have had a portion to have stuck with this for so long! I’d like to thank you all for your likes, comments and stories along the way - you have made A Cambridge Diary a heartwarming community and a place to share memories with Cambridge folk both from the town and the university. Most of all I’d like to thank everyone who has appeared in my pictures over the past thirteen years: the bikers, bowlers and buskers; the carpenters, choristers, clothiers and constables; the dancers, diners and dog-walkers; the entertainers and extras; the gardeners and graduates; the kayakers; the lecturers and lingerie models; the painters, parents, pensioners, porters, praelectors, proctors, professors and punters; the readers, revellers, rowers and runners; the scaffolders, scullers, singers, skateboarders, soldiers, stonemasons, strollers, students and swimmers; the tourists and touts; the walkers and workers. I’d also like to thank the cats, dogs, ducks, rabbits, squirrels and swans, and Queen Elizabeth I and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. To you all, my sincere thanks. Whilst this is my final daily picture it doesn’t mean the end of A Cambridge Diary as I’ll still be posting my pictures from five and ten years ago and I’m sure there will be the occasional new picture popping up now and then - just not every day. Oh, and I still have to walk home don’t I? Love to all Martin
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Charlotte Collins retweeted
Murmuration of starlings in Italy.. 😊
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I'll take the highest overall taxes since at least the war if you give me great health care, shit-free waters, affordable energy, a safety net for all, reliable rail, a liveable pension, maintained roads, police, a functioning legal system, funded councils, funded schools,
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It may have seemed twee, but I've found it oddly comforting, whenever I opened Twitter, to see his funny face still pinned to the top of my profile. After almost two years, I think the time has come to let him go. Farewell, sweet cat. You are not forgotten.
Anyone who knows me knows I loved this dear, sweet, funny, loyal, affectionate little cat more than anything. He has been my best friend through two rounds of chemo, 18 mths of shielding and more. Caliban (BanBan, Banski, Furry Snail) died one week ago today. I am heartbroken.
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Charlotte Collins retweeted
And here is the video you’ve all been waiting for! I am pleased to say the otters enjoyed the book more than I ever imagined they would! #otters #lifeandottermiracles #BookTwitter
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Cats.. 😂
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I did an interview for Georgian TV about translating Nino Haratischvili and singing with the Cambridge Georgian choir @ChelaBuska - also featured, along with the wonderful Ialoni. (No idea what I'm saying here, but for those who understand Georgian...) youtube.com/watch?v=-4xp4RCB…
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I will miss Twitter if it goes, but maybe I’ll regain a quieter mind. The person I will miss the most is @JortsTheCat. Love you, Jorts - thanks for being your hilarious, inimitable, undaunted, kind and eloquent self.
Love you, Twitter workers ❤️ #LoveWhereYouWorked
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