Urgent #translation job: potentially looking for someone who can translate ~200 words of Steam page copy from English into #Chinese, before 15:00 CEST on Thursday 9th May. Paid at a good rate, obviously.
(We will know by tomorrow if we need this for certain!)
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Today, I'm translating an academic essay on the opportunities and risks of technology, and how to approach them in the field of education, from Italian to English.
Signed up for an event for people looking to join the Brazilian publishing industry as editors/proofreaders. Last year I did a course given by the institution that's hosting this event. We'll take an editing test during the event. I hope I pass; it's a great chance of getting customers.
It offers many courses focused on the Brazilian publishing industry (for translators, editors, writers, literary agents, book publishers, and so on).
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Here's the registration info for the online launch for The Lantern and the Night Moths! I'll read from the book and talk about translation with Mike Fu and Wendy Chen, in an event moderated by Chenxin Jiang! Hosted by the lovely Guanghwa Books in London.
If you're in Vancouver, I have a reading with three fellow poets and/or translators at Massy Arts on this Sunday! In celebration of The Lantern and the Night Moths!
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