The Visible Art of Translation

Yining Chen from the INCREC project interviewed Vlad Glǎveanu, a Full Professor of Psychology in the Business School at Dublin City University and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology and the new AI Learn Institute at the University of Bergen. He graduated with a BA in Psychology from the University of Bucharest and an MSc and PhD in Social Psychology from th...

Xiaolu Wang from the INCREC project interviewed Paula Mariani, a professional translator with extensive experience in translating and adapting feature films, series, and documentaries from English into Spanish. As a subtitler, dubbing translator, and voice-over translator, she has worked on content for major platforms such as Netflix — including Bridgerton, One Piece, and The Great — and Apple, in...

Ana Guerberof Arenas from the INCREC project interviewed Alon Lavie for this month's episode. Alon is a computer scientist and an expert on machine translation and he has been at the leading edge of AI research in language technology for more than 20 years. He is currently a Distinguished Career Professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, in the USA, where h...

Annelies de hertogh (1977) has a Master’s Degree in Translation and translates Russian, English and German literature into Dutch. Els de Roon Hertoge (1973) has a Master’s Degree in Slavonic Studies and translates Russian and English literature. They met in 2013 during a translation project where Annelies was the translator and Els the editor. They worked so well together that they decided to cont...

Xiaolu Wang from the INCREC project interviewed María Meroño Fernández, a specialist in translation, accessibility, and proofreading. María works primarily translating between English and Spanish, as well as from French to Spanish. She holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Murcia and a Master's degree in Humanistic and Creative Translation from the University of...

Nastja Shaboltas from the INCREC project interview Hwasue S. Warber. She is the first professional translator to bring Norwegian literature directly into Korean, without the detour via intermediary languages. Since 2001, she has translated around 130 works, mainly from Norwegian, but also from Swedish and Danish. Her translations span contemporary fiction, children’s literature, classics, and nonf...

In this Xmas Special, the team behind the INCREC project talks about the project in more detail. What did we learn the past year and how did the project evolve? We all wish you happy holidays and a wonderful 2026!

Kyo Gerrits  from the INCREC project interviews  Fannah Palmer . She is a literary translator and editor. She has studied English at the University of Amsterdam and Writing, Editing and Mediating at the University of Groningen. She translates fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, and from English into Dutch and from Dutch into English. Her translations include Audre Lorde’s  Zami , Yael van d...

Xiaolu Wang from the INCREC project interviewed Adán Cassan. Adán Cassan, a professional audiovisual translator with nearly a decade of experience in subtitling and dubbing. With 24 years as a language professional, Adán specializes in translating from English, Portuguese, and Italian into Spanish and Catalan. His portfolio includes major Netflix productions like Wednesday, Ripley, and Maestro, as...

Kyo Gerrits  from the INCREC project interviews  Tjadine Stheeman , who is a literary translator. She has studied translation and literary studies at the University of Amsterdam. She translates from English into Dutch and she has translated many authors and stories, from Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, to Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, from Ottessa Moshfegh and David Sedaris to Jonathan Safran Foer a...

Nastja Shaboltas⁠ from the INCREC project interviewed Meritxell Salvany Balada. Meritxell holds a degree in English from the University of Barcelona, where she also studied Swedish Language. Between 1983 and 1986, she obtained her diplomas in French and Italian. Thanks to the Swedish Institute, she studied Swedish at different Folkhögskolor (1989–95), and Nordic literatures at the University of St...

Xiaolu Wang from the INCREC project interviewed Lía Moya. Lía Moya, a seasoned audiovisual translator whose career spans over two decades in the Spanish film industry. With a background in journalism, Lía discovered her calling in audiovisual translation through her work at film festivals, initially as a programmer before moving into translation. She developed her skills at Filmoteca Española, whe...

Kyo Gerrits  from the INCREC project interviews  Maria Postema . Maria is a translator, author and drummer. She has studied English and TV-cultures at the University of Utrecht where she still lives and works. She translates from English into Dutch, mainly youth and YA literature. She is most well-known for her translation of popular YA series such as The Hunger Games, Divergent and Twilight serie...

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 Joh...

Xiaolu Wang from the INCREC project interviewed Josep Llurba Naval. Josep is a professional translator with extensive experience in translating and adapting feature films and TV series from English into Spanish and Catalan. As a subtitler, Josep has worked on films screened at cinema theaters, the Catalan Film House (Filmoteca de la Generalitat de Catalunya), and film festivals. His academic contr...

Nastja Shaboltas from the INCREC project interviewed Karolina Drozdowska . Karolina is a literary translator from Norwegian to Polish and a literary scholar. They have published over one hundred and twenty translations, including books by Jens Bjørneboe, Lars Mytting, Nina Lykke and Marie Aubert. They are a member of Polish Literary Translators' Association and won NORLA's Translator's Award in 20...

Liset Rouweler  from the INCREC project interviews  Erna Auf der Haar . Erna is a freelance audiovisual translator based in the Netherlands. She discovered her passion for subtitling during her studies and started her career in the early 2000’s. Since then, she has translated many different movies, tv shows and documentaries in different genres, among which my favorite Dexter. Erna also received t...

Kyo Gerrits  from the INCREC project interviews  Sarah Timmer Harvey . Sarah is a translator and writer currently based in Woodstock, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York and a BA from Southern Cross University. Sarah’s translation of Jente Posthuma’s novel What I’d Rather Not Think About was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2024. In that same year, she...

In this Xmas Special, the team behind the INCREC project talks about the project in more detail. You'll get the change to learn more about who we are, what we are doing and what challenges are faced within a research project of this size. We all wish you happy holidays and a wonderful 2025!

Kyo Gerrits  from the INCREC project interviews  Michele Hutchison . She is a literary translator from Dutch and French to English. She has translated many different authors and genres, literary novels, graphic novels, children’s novel, picture books and non-fiction to name a few. She is perhaps most well-known for her translation of Lucas Rijneveld’s ‘The Discomfort of Evening’ which won the Inte...

Xiaolu Wang from the INCREC project interviews Anjana Martínez-Tejerina. Anjana holds a PhD in Audiovisual Translation from the University of Alicante and has been working as a freelance translator since 2007. She specializes in subtitling and dubbing. Over the years, Anjana has collaborated with major clients such as International Sound Studio, Sublimage and Babel Subtitling. She has translated h...

Nastja Shaboltas  from the INCREC project interviews ⁠ Natasha Press . Natasha is a translator and interpreter from Swedish and English into Russian, a poet and a performer. She translates fiction,both poetry and prose, and non-fiction. Among her translations are the novels by Stig Dagerman, an influential figure in the Swedish literature of the 20th century. She is also a part of the seminar of l...

Xiaolu Wang  from the INCREC project interviews  Shak Yousaf . He is an audio describer, audio description manager and lecturer based in London. With 10 years of experience as the Audio Description Manager at Iyuno, Shak brings a wealth of expertise to the field. Additionally, he teaches audio description at UCL in the autumn and at the University of Leeds in the spring. The courses he has created...

Kyo Gerrits from the INCREC-project interviews Roos van de Wardt . She is a literary translator, lecturer and mentor for translation studies, and she also works at the ‘Cultural Pharmacy’ where they offer consultations and write out tailored book-prescriptions. She has studied English language and literature and Translation Studies at the University of Utrecht, where she received a Top Talent Gran...

Ana Guerberof-Arenas⁠ from the INCREC project interviews Amalie Foss ⁠ . She is a copywriter, AV translator and co-founder of the Medietekst Danmark. She works as a news subtitler at TV2, which is Denmarks second national public service broadcaster. Amalie is also the president of the Audiovisal Translators Europe and the chair of the AV Group of Translators within the Danish Union of Journalists....