By Irene Stoel Frans Kooymans’s second workshop at ATA65 took place on Saturday afternoon, right before the conference’s closing session. The DLD Distinguished Speaker was going to speak about the state of literary translation in the Netherlands, pulling from his own experience as the translator of the book “All God’s Dangers” as well as his […]
From “All God’s Dangers” to “De kleur van katoen”
By Irene Stoel Two years after ATA63 in Los Angeles, the Dutch Language Division was once again allowed to propose a Distinguished Speaker for the conference in Portland, Oregon. Frans Kooymans was recommended by one of our former Distinguished Speakers, Tony Parr (ATA60) because of his translation of “All God’s Dangers.” Recaps of Frans’ presentations […]
ATA63 Recap: “Translating Non-binary Singular They into a Language That Does Not Have an Equivalent” by Tia Nutters, DLD Distinguished Speaker
By Mery Molenaar It’s Friday morning, October 14, 2022, and I am on my way to attend a presentation by Tia Nutters on translating “singular they.” For years, I have been struggling to find a proper translation of this gender-neutral pronoun in Dutch, and I am excited to learn more from an expert in the […]
ATA63 Recap: MACHINE TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE: A marriage made in hell?
A note from the DLD Administrator: Welcome to the DLD’s first blog post of 2023. Let me start by wishing you all a very Happy New Year, on behalf of the entire DLD Leadership Council! May your year be filled with good health, fulfilling relationships and professional success. We hope that the DLD will be […]
Interview with Tia Nutters
At the ATA63 conference in Los Angeles, the Dutch Language Division had the pleasure of presenting Tia Nutters as the division’s Distinguished Speaker. Tia is an academic editor at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG). She also conducts research on a host of translation-related themes and works to bridge the gap between translation theory and practice. She did […]
#ATA61 – Part II
By Leo van Zanten, DLD Assistant Administrator During this virtual conference there were 120 Educational Sessions. At a regular conference it’s impossible to attend all at the same time, and the same is true virtually. Good thing is that the recordings are available until May 1, 2021 to all of us who registered, so we […]
#ATA61 – Part I
By Leo van Zanten, DLD Assistant Administrator We have had our Annual Conference for this year, and it was not great to not be able to see you all in Boston. Many of us looked forward to meeting our colleagues and friends. It’s a great occasion to gather educational information, to network, to get together […]
60th Annual ATA Conference – DLD Speakers
By Irene Paquet This year the Dutch Language Division got two Distinguished speakers ‘for the price of one’. Marcel Lemmens and Tony Parr have been organizing workshops for translators together for over 25 years. For our conference, they came up with topics for two sessions. On Thursday afternoon, Tony presented ‘The Translator of the Future […]