Michele Hutchison

Tarifas estancadas durante veinte años, pluriempleo y ahora la amenaza de la IA: la precariedad de la traducción literaria en España Tarifas estancadas desde hace veinte años fuerzan el pluriempleo de los traductores literarios en un sector editorial en plena bonanza.

www.publico.es/sociedad/tar... ¡Qué poca vergüenza! (>editores españoles) #paguealtraductor

Opinie | We zijn in acuut gevaar, maar blijven wensdenken over de VS Geopolitiek: Amerika heeft zich niet alleen van ons af, maar tégen ons gekeerd, ziet Joris Luyendijk. Maar om hem heen doen de meesten alsof er uiteindelijk niets aan de hand is.

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📣 Join Michele Hutchison for the Multilingual Prose Fiction Workshop at BCLT Summer School 2026 📣 ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026 🌞

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“Submerged” a review of Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW by Catherine Parnell — BIRCH BARK EDITING Sea Now  By Eva Meijer, translated from Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo Two Lines Press / Peirene Press, 2025 180 pages It’s abundantly clear that we, the inhabitants of Planet Earth, have created an untenable...

NBCC member Catehrien Parnell reviewed "Sea Now," written by Eva Meijer and translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo, for MicroLit:

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The thing that depresses me in the whole AI revolution in my industry (I’m a literary translator and publisher) is that the question is not whether machines can replace human translators, but how will we deal with the fallout after machines are forcibly introduced regardless.

Yes, it's with beautiful woodcuts and a nature theme, though closer to The Starling's Song, so more aimed at children.

So glad you liked This Will Last Forever! I've just translated Octavie's latest, You Are My Beginning for @pushkinpress.com Not sure of pub date yet.

To say that AIs can replace human translators is to say that AI can replace human painters and sculptors and singers and poets. It's to assume that AIs as they are currently made and will be made for the foreseeable future can surpass humans in those things which require a soul.

Translators work hard to make sure that the translated words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, etc, not only convey the author's meaning, but also the author's *style.*

Translators are alchemists. They are artists, and poets, and researchers, and editors. They are magicians and wizards.

Picture shows the front cover of the book The Snow Fox and the Long, Long Night by Marieke Ten Berge

A beautiful story of resilience and trust.🦊

The Snow Fox and the Long, Long Night by Marieke Ten Berge

Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
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Day 10, 11+ Fiction: 'Under the London Sky' by Anna Woltz & transl. by @michehut.bsky.social. Friendships form and romance blossoms during nights spent sheltering in the underground. But who will live? And who will die? @rocktheboatnews.bsky.social #Spark12BooksOfChristmas 🎄🎁📚

I'm not so sure, living in the Netherlands means my English gets rusty and contaminated by Dutchisms.

I think translating between two languages in the same family is probably easier but there's more chance of interference, so that gap is maybe also helpful sometimes?

Editors are so important!

So sorry to hear that, Jo. When it's time, the cat distribution network will do its thing.

Writers with cats are welcome!

Black fluffy cat with plain yoghurt all over its face

Here's one of my own after a yoghurt incident. #translatorswithcats

What a lovely squeezy cat!

Hey! <3

Looking for translators with cats! Please help me find my people.

Nee andersom @athenaeum.nl ik heb Angelo vertaald en Kristen Lale.

Nice review! I'm just translating Angelo's next novel which is twice as long.

Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

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Join literary translator Michele Hutchison & editor Tamara Sampey-Jawad as they explore the intricate process of editing translations -exploring collaboration, challenges & rewards of bringing international literature to new audiences.

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Mushrooms and Company — Through the Bookshelf ‘A mushroom is a nice detail in a forest, a decorative dwarf under the sturdy wooden giants.’ But, as this fascinating book proves, there is so much more to fungi than this! Crammed with information...

Today's review...'Mushrooms and Company: How a Marvelously Moldy Network Supports Life on Earth by
Geert-Jan Roebers, illustrated by Wendy Panders and translated by Michele Hutchison @greystonebooks.bsky.social Fascinating!
www.throughthebookshelf.com/reviews/mushrooms-and-company

Gefeliciteerd! Ik ben met het Engelse fragment bezig.

Portada del libro «Fall, Bomb, Fall» de Gerrit Kouwenaar, traducido al inglés por Michele Hutchison y publicado por Pushkin Press.

Portada del libro «Ojalá cayera una bomba», de Gerrit Kouwenaar, traducido al español por Gonzalo Fernández Gómez y publicado por Gatopardo Ediciones.

Estas dos ediciones (inglés y español) del clásico neerlandés «Val, bom» (Gerrit Kouwenaar) se gestaron en la Casa del Traductor de Amberes en un proyecto de traducción paralela entre @michehut.bsky.social y un servidor. #traduccionesgemelas

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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca/the-publishi... good article about 'track'

188. Under the London Sky by Anna Woltz, translated by @michehut.bsky.social
Another powerful story for KS3 readers weaving together untold stories from the Blitz.
Read my review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social here: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
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