The Visible Art of Translation

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1. S3E10: Bas Belleman "Art finds a way"

   21 oktober 2026 · 41 min

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   Kyo Gerrits from the INCREC project interviews Bas Belleman. Bas Belleman is a poet, translator, journalist and writer. He got his degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Maastricht and his most well-known translations are the Sonnets of the one and only William Shakespeare himself into Dutch, for which he won the Filter translation prize in 2021. He began by translating the so-called Dark Lady sequence, before doing all 154 and the longer narrative poem “A Lover’s Complaint”. He has been translating Shakespeare for over 10 years now while also publishing multiple poetry collections and literary reviews. Lees meer

2. S3E09: Manik Sarkar "Translators need to read, read, and read"

   23 september 2026 · 43 min

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   In this episode, Ana Gueberof-Arenas, the PI of the INCREC-Project, sat down with Manik Sarkar, a literary translator from English and French into Dutch. He is the regular translator of Philippe Claudel and Joël Dicker; he has also translated works by James Baldwin, Kamel Daoud, Irène Némirovsky, Hisham Matar, Alexandre Jardin and Frédéric Beigbeder. He has translated well over sixty titles since 2002, and also graphic novels. Lees meer

   Manik is also a lecturer at the Vertalersvakschool in Amsterdam since 2015 and is also a writer. His debut novel Ossenkop (Bullhead) was published in 2024 and is being translated into other languages like German (already out), French, English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Greek, Norwegian and Swedish. The book was nominated for several awards, and won the Hebban Debuutprijs, the Hans Vervoort prize and the Beste Groninger Boek 2025.

3. S3E08: Miquel Cabal Guarro "Translation is the process of welcoming the other into your own language"

   26 augustus 2026 · 23 min

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   In this episode, Nastja is interviewing Miquel Cabal Guarro holds a degree in Slavic Philology and a PhD inSociolinguistics. His academic and professional work has focused on literary translation fromRussian into Catalan, translation theory, the reception of Russian literary translations, and the study of registers in the Catalan language. On the other hand, his research has specialised in language policy and sociolinguistics of the post-Soviet space in dialogue with the Catalan case, with a particular emphasis on the sociolinguistic situation of the Crimean Tatars and Ukraine. Lees meer

   He has devoted 25 years to literary translation and has published more than fifty translations from Russian into Catalan, including works of prose fiction and drama. He is currently a lecturer in Translation and Russian Literature at the University of Barcelona, a member of the board of directors of the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations, and a delegate to the Language Policy Committee of the University of Barcelona.

4. S03E07: Xanna Reddingius "Translation is automatically an adaptation"

   29 juli 2026 · 41 min

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   Kyo Gerrits from the INCREC project interviews Xanna Reddingius. Xanna is an editor and translator of children’s books. She has studied Art History at the University of Amsterdam and has been working in the publishing industry for multiple years mainly in children’s literature. She focuses largely on English to Dutch, and her translations include multiple books in the famous little golden books series, “The Chase”, and several Disney projects. Lees meer

5. S3E06: Vlad Glǎveanu "Possibilities emerge when we allow ourselves to wonder"

   24 juni 2026 · 24 min

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   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 the London School of Economics. His research focuses on creativity, innovation, imagination, wonder, technology, culture, collaboration and possibility related topics. He is founder and director of the DCU Centre for Possibility Studies, founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network, editor of Possibility Studies and Society (Sage), and editor of the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of the Possible. Lees meer

6. S3E05: Paula Mariani "The most used possibility is not always the best"

   27 mei 2026 · 30 min

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   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, including Murderbot, For All Mankind, and The Morning Show. Her outstanding work has been recognized by ATRAE (Spanish Association of Audiovisual Translation and Adaptation), who awarded her the Xènia Martínez Special Award in 2017 and nominated her for the film subtitling award for Logan Lucky and Colette, as well as for the television voice-over award for Wild Wild Country. Paula's academic contributions include teaching subtitling for ten years in the Master's Degree in Audiovisual Translation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University and European University of Valencia. Lees meer

7. S3E04: Alon Lavie "Three dimensions of technological development: Adaptability, Interactivity and Flexibility"

   22 april 2026 · 38 min

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   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. Lees meer

   He is currently a Distinguished Career Professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, in the USA, where he co-directs CMU’s professional Master’s program in AI and Innovation (MSAII), and a Strategic Advisor for Phrase, a language technology platform company that develops computer aided translation tools (CAT).

   His research interests are centered on Automated Translation Quality Estimation and Evaluation, he was the lead researcher behind the METEOR and COMET metrics, and he has also worked on the development of Machine Translation adaptation techniques.

8. S3E03: Annelies de Hertogh & Els de Roon Hertoge “We discuss translation problems until we agree on the best solution and that’s where we are the most creative.”

   25 maart 2026 · 34 min

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   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 continue collaborating as a duo for Russian and English literature. Lees meer

   They have translated works by the Polish-Russian absurdist writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the Soviet-Russian humorist Sergey Dovlatov, the German-British experimentalist Isabel Waidner and the American surrealist ‘Dorothea Tanning, among others. From 2020 to 2024 they worked on their biggest translation project to date: the monumental war novel Stalingrad by Vasili Grossman, the prequel of the equally monumental novel Life and fate. For this translation they were awarded the Filter Translation Prize in 2025.

   They are currently finishing the translation of a third collection of stories by their favorite Russian author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and have begun working on the translation of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

   For more information, you can visit Els and Annelies’ website: www.hertog-hertog.nl

9. S3E02: Maria Meroño Fernández "The great jokes of the future are being erased as we speak"

   25 februari 2026 · 27 min

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   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 Valencia. María is particularly passionate about the more creative and humanistic areas of translation, including tourism, music, and gastronomy, among others. She has translated a wide array of audiovisual genres, from documentaries (Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire) to reality shows (The Bad Foot Clinic), all the way to movies (the dark comedy Bad Apples) and TV shows (Law and Order, Will & Grace). She is currently working on her first book translation, a historic novel set in the Tudor period with a heavy emphasis on religion, longlisted for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Lees meer

10. S3E01: Hwasue S. Warberg "Creativity in translation does not always mean doing more but it can mean doing less - trusting repetitions, silence, rhythm.”

    28 januari 2026 · 28 min

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    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 nonfiction, and she is widely recognized as a driving force in shaping the reception and success of Norwegian literature in South Korea. Her translation of Jon Fosse’s Melancholia I–II was a finalist for the 64th Korean Herald Publishing Culture Award (2023). In 2019, she was honored by the President of South Korea as a “Cultural Ambassador”. She studied English literature in Lees meer

    Korea and music in Austria, now she lives in Norway.

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