It’s always hard to get bestsellers lists from different countries. Today I find out that the French Books Magazine has a compilation of links of bestsellers lists from all over the word. Most of them (or at least the ones I checked) are published by newspapers and magazines, thus they are not official. Still it’s [...]
Entries from June 2009
23 June 2009
One Thousand Casmurros
Just to change the subject a little bit, but not that much. At the end of 2008, the biggest TV Channel in Brazil produced a TV show based on the book Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis. To promote the show, they created a website called Mil Casmurros (or One Thousand Casmurros). — Casmurro is [...]
21 June 2009
Translation Social Network II
Of course the idea of creating a social network of translators on the web shouldn’t be restrained only to the literary world. The thing is that generally literary and technical translators perform their jobs in very different ways and in different contexts. But there is no reason to not come up with a way to [...]
19 June 2009
Biblioteca Brasiliana
O site da Biblioteca Brasiliana (sim, a do Mindlin) está online desde o dia 4 desse mês. Parece que a equipe está a todo o vapor digitalizando os livros. Não dá pra não ficar animado, não?
Since 4th June the website of the Biblioteca Brasiliana it’s online. It’s the biggest private library that was donated in [...]
19 June 2009
Translations from Brazil to Abroad
The final thesis I wrote for my Master at Leiden University is online both in English and in Portuguese:
- English: it’s available at the Index Translationum website.
- Em português: o paper que eu escrevi a partir da tese e apresentei no II Lihed pode ser baixado aqui.
15 June 2009
Literary Translation Social Network
I have the idea of using Web Social Networks to enhance translation so clear in my mind that I actually wrote a draft of a project a while ago. Why should I keep that to myself??? I don’t know… After reading the Summary and the recommendations of the Salzburg Global Seminar a while ago I [...]
