Rosalind Harvey @Rosenkrantz Twitter profile

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

I'm nearly 40 but I made a meme

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

@thedalstonyears This is normal if you went to school in the 80s/90s! I only learned grammar because I also studied foreign languages at school. If you like cats, this might help:

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

little known fact- st jerome worked as a technician in a nail bar for big cats before becoming a translator 🦁💅🏻 happy #InternationalTranslationDay , folks!

weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !!

@WeirdMedieval

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st jerome and the lion, italy, 15th century

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

5 years

This is a really good bad translation

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

thanks to @Terribleman for immortalising, in t-shirt form, the sentence once said to me by a student 🤟🏼 #ruiningtranslationsince2008

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

yeah so the world is still burning and here in the uk we have yet another knob lined up to be prime minister, but I just found out that the arts council is giving me money to write a book and it's made me do a little happy dance!!!!!!!

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Happy 39th birthday to ME!! Feeling v loved (despite general shitness of everything) thanks to all the cards, flowers & messages. Last year can fuck right off, here’s to this year being lighter & brighter for us all 💐🌞🌚

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

5 years

Happy International Translation Day to everyone! Let’s celebrate multilingualism, difference, students bravely learning new langs, amazing kids interpreting for their parents across the uk, food & stories from elsewhere 🌱💬 #ITD2019 #buythetranslatorinyrlifeadrink

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 years

Handsome many-toed visitor to my garden. Rewarded him with Dreamies. 10/10 for non-conforming body type. @thecatreviewer

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

tidying up my study, thought i’d take a snap of (almost) all the books i’ve been involved with while they’re not dusty af. feeling very lucky to have been able to build a life around literature w these authors & publishers

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 months

I aspire to be even a quarter of the translator @Terribleman is - sensitively calibrating, with the skill of a virtuoso, each and every word of each and every text. these are his thoughts on AI and translation, and I urge anyone who cares about art to read them

frank wynne 🏳️‍🌈

@Terribleman

4 months

@AntonHur I couldn’t agree more – this is a part of the acceptance speech I gave earlier this week for the French American Prize

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

honoured and thrilled to be here, and amongst such stellar company too!! 🤩🤩🤩

Fitzcarraldo Editions

@FitzcarraldoEds

2 years

💫We are thrilled that STILL BORN by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey, is on the International Booker 2023 Shortlist!

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 years

@thecatreviewer "I hear you pet strange cats in this house - let me in and I won't disappoint"

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 months

i’m still a bit surprised whenever i see translators talking about certain forms of speech being ‘wrong.’ i mean yeah, some things are wrong according to a grammar textbook or in a language classroom, but language doesn’t only exist in those spaces- language exists in motion, out

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

5 years

Really honoured to be chosen as one of Coventry City of Culture's International Changemakers - I'll be travelling to Mexico very soon to make new creative links, share knowledge & experience, and scout for new authors/projects 🤓🇲🇽🦅🌞(y comer rico 🌮🌮🌮)

Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

@Coventry2021

5 years

20 International Changemakers projects, supported by @BritishCouncil , have just been announced! These projects, run by Coventry people, will uncover connections, develop ideas and create lasting cultural exchanges around the world ➡️ #ThisisCoventry

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Translation with footnotes 🐾

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 years

@_Chris_Ritchie @MsVee1304 @nikeshshukla Omid Djalili, @tezilyas , Shappi Khorsandi, Romesh Ranganathan, Shazea Mirza, Ava Vidal, Nathan Caton, Lenny Henry... I could go on

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 months

Very excited to announce that I'm translating EL DESIERTO BLANCO by @murciano81 for @GrantaBooks - about the future & memory, it's melancholy yet comic, structurally inventive yet highly readable, w touches of 'Lost' & 'The Traitors', among other things🏜️

The White Desert - López Carrasco, Luis - 978-84-339-1849-9 - Editorial Anagrama

2023 Herralde Novel Prize Nine strangers escape from bombings in a hot air balloon. They must decide which one of them h...

www.anagrama-ed.es

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

yeah translation’s great but have you ever grown your own broad beans in a raised bed you made yourself out of breeze blocks?

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

the booker prize people asked me a few questions:

Rosalind Harvey interview: 'The separation of translated fiction from so-called original fiction is...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, Rosaline Harvey talks about her translation of Still Born in an exclusive interview

thebookerprizes.com

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

i love him so much

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

quite sick tbh of the expectation to be excellent/be doing excellent things all the time. exhausting. currently just aspiring to be mediocre and relaxed for the rest of my life

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 years

@MsVee1304 @nikeshshukla There are LOADS of comedians of colour. And they all have more comedy in their little finger than Michael McIntyre

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

6 months

very frustrating when you know that a press that gets a lot of acclaim/prizes for publishing great work behaves incredibly badly behind the scenes towards its translators 😤

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

5 years

walking to the corner shop to buy something small n cheap I do not need just so that I will have left the house once today #translatorlife

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Thinking about when I went to Spain with an ex & his friends, & one day they got back from the supermarket with crateloads of beer with the word 'SIN' all over it, very pleased with themselves, thinking it was really strong & evil like sin (sin = without as in without alcohol)

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

anyone know anything about this place, the institute of arts and ideas? seems like a suspiciously low salary for what is essentially being a part-time… wife?!?

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

I can’t work in these conditions

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

5 years

I am SO SICK of arguing with literally everyone I have to interact with professionally in order simply to be paid and/or receive decent terms/treatment as a human being

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

For all those who've been having a tough day/week/few months/year: Ferris says, Keep on truckin' 🤘

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

6 years

@thecatreviewer Cats I met on my Turkish holidays. Top marks for streetwise (c)attitudes, minus points for not being able to take them home 😭

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Sorry to everyone I owe an email to. Before, my reason was 'global pandemic.' Now, it's this fuzzy little man

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

dating a greek who is currently back home, and i’m sorry but am extremely proud of this pun i just sent him: ‘so what’s on the aegean-da for today?’

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Oh, this is nice! My co-translation w Jessie Mendez Sayer of Alberto Barrera Tyszka's book 'The Last Days of El Comandante' is a finalist for Best Fiction Book Translation in the International Latino Book Awards😊see rest of thread for all the other v interesting sounding bks

University of Texas Press

@UTexasPress

3 years

ꜰɪɴᴀʟɪꜱᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ʙᴇꜱᴛ ꜰɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ - ꜱᴘᴀɴɪꜱʜ ᴛᴏ ᴇɴɢʟɪꜱʜ, ɪɴᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ʟᴀᴛɪɴᴏ ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴀᴡᴀʀᴅꜱ THE LAST DAYS OF EL COMANDANTE By Alberto Barrera Tyszka; translated by Rosalind Harvey & Jessie Mendez Sayer

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

6 months

VERY excited about this!!!? 🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛

And Other Stories

@andothertweets

6 months

Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos and translated by @Rosenkrantz , our first ever book in 2011, and also Villalobos's and Rosalind Harvey's first book, is looking extraordinary on billboards! 1st May on Netflix too. Can't wait.

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

The best thing about working on this text about 16th century voyages & piracy is I keep having to type the phrase ‘massive booty’ and it never fails to disappoint

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Just had the most lovely guy from my internet provider making conversation and, when he found out what I did for a living, asked me if you have to translate the punctuation too?!?! The man is WASTED at Plusnet

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

8 months

I am grateful that 'Still Born' has received this recognition, but at the same time I remain angry and puzzled about the society's continued silence on the Israel/palestine conflict

Alison Watts wins inaugural Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Prize for ‘beautifully sad’ transla...

Prizes awarded for translations from seven languages ahead of the 2023 Translation Prizes ceremony later today at the British Library

societyofauthors.org

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

5 years

Currently looking to take on a few literary translation mentees via Skype/in person. Advice on paths to publication; information on the lit. & translation scene in the UK; manuscript editing; friendly encouragement &c. DM or email me rosalindhavey @me .com for rates if interested!

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

monday motivation- i made a reading nook in my new office but it looks like there’s competition

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

this tiny gem of a book 💎

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Pfizer número dos in me veins!! At last that one-shouldered top came in handy

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 years

@thecatreviewer My mum’s cat’s would-be boyfriend, 9/10 for handsome face, 2/10 for not being mine

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Yeah translation is great but have you ever snapped off a bit of a plant from a beach and planted it in your garden and had it finally bloom 3 YEARS later?

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Yes, global pandemic, but today I've spent time speaking to lots of people about translation & other things and let me tell you, people are great and people are going to save the world, no matter how awful it gets. A small hopeful moment, pls let me have it

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Every time I get down on the floor to do extended child’s pose he scoots underneath me and curls up and purrs 😻 #Caturday #Ferris

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

5 years

Trying to stay off the socials as much as possible as it’s making me anxious, but in case anyone needs some non-corona content, here are signs of spring budding in my little Coventry garden

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Editor: Why did you delete this word? Me: It didn’t spark joy

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

1 today 🎂 #Ferris

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 years

@thecatreviewer Pub cat at my local Irish joint. 1/10 for strokability- totally uninterested.

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 months

In most of the anglophone world at least, literary translators are predominantly women. Value our work, read us widely, negotiate w us in good faith, & pay us more! Happy #InternationalWomensDay24

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

pls admire my extremely stylish new bookshelf 😎

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

This is my language

Lawrence Schimel

@lawrenceschimel

4 years

Bilingual pun (special for @Rosenkrantz )

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

During lockdown 1 I became known as the lady with the printer on my street, & a few people would come knocking with stuff for me to print off. One guy who did this a few times just called round with a bowl of bell peppers he grew. Peppers for printers sure beats clap for carers

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

8 months

I'll be speaking about navigating relationships in literary translation at LBF24 - join me!

I'm speaking at The London Book Fair, join me!

Register now

invt.io

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

got back from lbf to find a couple of recent things i’ve worked on: 1. HERE BE ICEBERGS by the wonderful @kadaui @CharcoPress 🔥❄️

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

the ferris bush has fruited 😻

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

to celebrate lula’s win, think i’ll read a translation essay by one of my favourite brazilians, @lucycolli , in this exciting collection edited by @JeremyTiang and kavita bhanot that i’ve recently got my hands on 🇧🇷🔥

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 months

this is making me so angry. I have a p/t job at the local libraries here in cov, and council-run libraries are literally the ONLY space left in most towns and cities where anyone, regardless of background, can come and get help, support, keep warm, just sit quietly etc. one of

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@C_Hendrick

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Liverpool's Spellow Lane library torched last night. What could be more 'patriotic' than destroying a centre which serves the local community?

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 years

THIS BIRD LAUGHS IN SPANISH

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

What I wouldn’t give to walk out of my house with my laptop right now and go to a little cafe to edit all afternoon as the rain comes gently down 😔

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

ferris is 2 today🥳here he is post-biscuits & with a card from his auntie anna. not sure i wd have survived the last 2 yrs without him tbqh 😭💜

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

this year i hope to:- - develop more crushes - take more naps with ferris - continue exploring the crisps aisle in tk maxx - read less highbrow books - wear more interesting socks

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

ok who’s gonna learn mushroom and start translating from it first, gals and guys? 🍄

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Watching a livestream on translation + eating cake batter straight from the mixer - is this what the kids call ‘living one’s best life’ ?

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Working in an ACTUAL CAFE, the Pointer Sisters on the radio, banana milkshake + black americano, utter BLISS

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

8 months

i know this is a highly unoriginal and not even useful thought, but MAN i’m sick of all this ai SHITE! it’s not even so much that robots will steal my job - fine, i can re-train, whatever. it’s the having to live amongst these inane GHOULS who think this is art 🤡

Deedy

@deedydas

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People aren't taking the "everyone will be filmmakers" seriously enough. I made this 20s trailer in 15mins with an OpenAI Sora clip, David Attenborough's voice on Eleven Labs, and sampling some nature music from Youtube on iMovie

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

On a train! With my trusty steed!! For the first time since March!!!

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

cool down on this absolute scorcher of a day w a few choice, delectable shards from @kadaui 's glittering collection 'here be icebergs' - translated by me, out today w @CharcoPress

Charco Press

@CharcoPress

2 years

Happy publication day to HERE BE ICEBERGS, Katya Adaui's ( @kadaui ) incredible short story collection, translated by Rosalind Harvey ( @Rosenkrantz )! Twelve beautifully crafted, unsettling short stories about the mysteries of family. Get yours here:

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

How do teachers do it?? Have just done a 2-hr workshop with 15 brilliant teenagers and now need to go and lie down in a darkened room for approx 3 days #respect #payteachersmore

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

who's got the sexiest writer's/translator's websites?

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

6 months

when you send off 2 bits of work and it’s (just) sunny enough to clock off early and have a glass of wine in the garden

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

In the wake of the Sarah Everard case, I wrote about wanting to hear more men's stories

Where are the men?

Why women’s stories being shared in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder are no longer enough

link.medium.com

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Happy #TranslationThursday everyone! Putting it out there that I am available once again for mentoring early-career translators (short-/long-term), for editing work, & for giving talks on translation to your students or organisations - DM me for more info 🙂🤟

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

re-organising a sentence is like tidying a room

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

me: think i need to find a normal job, the lack of structure in freelance translation is v hard me whenever i’ve worked anywhere w structure:

libertariaNation

@libertNation

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Become ungovernable

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

beginning my quest to wear more interesting socks

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Must....do....tax return.....mustn’t......watch.....Ferris....in...the.....snow...all...day

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

7 years

Love in the time of Man Flu #makeabookharmless

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 months

new translation out now - this one really challenged my knowledge of all things iberian 🐖

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 months

summer school is over, i’m in my garden with some salty snacks and a glass of wine, and somewhere in the neighbourhood a steel band is playing bob marley’s ‘one love’, which feels right today, after 14 years of tory rule finally ends and we can all breathe a sigh of relief 💚

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

So, so angry and sad about Sarah Everard. Men do this. Men get away with this. And then men tell us to be careful or that we are overreacting or that we deserved it. Fuck the Met. Fuck men. WOMEN DESERVE TO BE ABLE TO WALK HOME ALONE SAFELY

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

today i am meant to be at my mini residency, writing, but thanks to finding out this morning that my actual residency (ie, in my rented home) is not as secure as i had thought, all I can do now is sit here and worry. housing insecurity is such a fucking enemy of creativity

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

📢Back in Feb I started offering a mentoring service for early-career literary translators & it’s been great to work with everyone who responded to my first tweet about this. Your feedback’s been really useful, interesting & humbling! My diary’s now open again for new mentees 📅

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 months

from a student's essay: "If [X text] is a rose blooming in a garden, then the translator is the gardener, employing various translation skills to delicately transplant it into another culture." 🌹🩶

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

I feel this in my very soul 😔 solidarity to anyone else struggling to just do the absolute bare minimum rn, which sometimes just means ‘getting out of bed and typing 2 emails’ 🖤

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

6 months

anyway in totally unrelated news, huge congrats to the brilliant @ZAPTranslations for her work on OF CATTLE AND MEN, winner of the republic of consciousness prize! I'm about to order it from my local library, and you should too 😊

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Happy weekend from this jolly cheese grater 😀

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

shout out to all the incredible phd students - nay, all students! - working in their 2nd or 3rd languages. insanely impressive, my mind is blown

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Joyous translation, publishing & life chats at the Indian YMCA with @Dmacviban & @rolandglasser 💚

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 months

🚨 JUMPSUIT SEASON IS UPON US

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

2 years

i’ve just read something that defines tradition as ‘peer pressure from dead people’ and 👌🏼

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Arts Council App submitted!! Fingers crossed for a project I am v excited about. Now to celebrate by defrosting my freezer🙃

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@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Brief palate-cleansing Ferris for the TL before we continue the work of dismantling the patriarchy 💪🏼

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

5 years

Just finished baking these date munchies to fortify my ex-colleagues at Warwick on the picket line tomorrow. I’m striking from my hourly-paid role at Bristol (not based there as it’s a distance-learning course) Solidarity to all demanding better working conditions! 💪🏼 #UCUstrike

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

just discovered the Cervantes Institute's refranero multilingüe and am now happy as a clam (or feliz como una lombriz 🪱)

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

I went to an actual, real life party and ate pizza and home made chocolate and almond cake and a spaniel sat in my lap and there was a thunder storm 😊

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

3 years

Roast pork batch with crackling & apple sauce, local ale, and a Pfizer amuse bouche!! 💉💉💉🥰🥰🥰

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Rosalind Harvey

@Rosenkrantz

4 years

Lovely to see @CMCTranslations ' 'Fish Soup' mentioned in this list (albeit without a mention of the translator, for any of the books here):

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