The Visible Art of Translation

• S2E10: Adán Cassan "At a global level, we are lowering our language"

  Xiaolu Wang from the INCREC project interviewed Adán Cassan. Adán Cassan, a professional audiovisual translator with nearly a decade of experience in subtitling and dubbing. With 24 years as a language professional, Adán specializes in translating from English, Portuguese, and Italian into Spanish and Catalan. His portfolio includes major Netflix productions like Wednesday, Ripley, and Maestro, as well as Disney Plus productions like Family Guy and 911 Lone Star. Beyond audiovisual translation, Adán brings a unique interdisciplinary background spanning natural language processing, computational lexicography, and even ludolinguistics—the world of crosswords and word games. As a member of several professional associations like the Spanish Organization of Audiovisual Translators and Adapters (ATRAE), Portuguese Association of Audiovisual Translators (ATAV) and SUBTLE, Adán represents the evolving landscape of modern translation work.

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• S2E09: Tjadine Stheeman "Translators are cultural ambassadors"

  Kyo Gerrits from the INCREC project interviews Tjadine Stheeman, who is a literary translator. She has studied translation and literary studies at the University of Amsterdam. She translates from English into Dutch and she has translated many authors and stories, from Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, to Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, from Ottessa Moshfegh and David Sedaris to Jonathan Safran Foer and Zadie Smith. She has also taught translation at the Academy for Literary Translation and she was an editor of the translation magazine “Pluk”. She now also presides over the board of the Vertalersvakschool (the Translator Craft School).

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• S2E08: Meritxell Salvany Balada "A translators main work is not so much to create something but to reproduce it in a way that doesn't crumble"

  Nastja Shaboltas⁠ from the INCREC project interviewed Meritxell Salvany Balada. Meritxell holds a degree in English from the University of Barcelona, where she also studied Swedish Language. Between 1983 and 1986, she obtained her diplomas in French and Italian. Thanks to the Swedish Institute, she studied Swedish at different Folkhögskolor (1989–95), and Nordic literatures at the University of Stockholm (1996–1997). She has translated around eighty novels and children’s books, mostly from Norwegian and Swedish, but also from Danish and Icelandic, into Catalan. In recent years, she has translated, amongst others, works by Ingmar Bergman, Maj Sjöwall, Elin Cullhed and Dag Hammarskjöld from Swedish, by Jon Fosse, Erlend Loe, Maria Parr, Ingunn Thon, Linn Ullmann, and Sigrid Undset from Norwegian, by Dorthe Nors and Mette Vedsø from Danish, and by Arndís Þórarinsdóttir from Icelandic. She very much enjoys making it possible that Scandinavian authors from present and past may be read in the Catalan language.

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• S02E07: Lía Moya "The creative process is inhabiting every character"

  Xiaolu Wang from the INCREC project interviewed Lía Moya. Lía Moya, a seasoned audiovisual translator whose career spans over two decades in the Spanish film industry. With a background in journalism, Lía discovered her calling in audiovisual translation through her work at film festivals, initially as a programmer before moving into translation. She developed her skills at Filmoteca Española, where she synchronized electronic subtitles, and has been working as a full-time freelance subtitler since 1997. Lía has collaborated with every major distributor in Spain, translating everything from major blockbusters to all sorts of interesting indies, while also working closely with film festivals. In recent years, she has expanded her expertise to include dubbing translation. Her exceptional work has earned industry recognition, including a nomination from the Spanish Association for Audiovisual Translation and Adaptation (ATRAE) for her subtitles of "Nebraska" in 2014, and winning their award for "Spotlight" in 2016.

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• S02E6: Maria Postema "We can come a long way with machine translation, but not the entire way"

  Kyo Gerrits from the INCREC project interviews Maria Postema. Maria is a translator, author and drummer. She has studied English and TV-cultures at the University of Utrecht where she still lives and works. She translates from English into Dutch, mainly youth and YA literature. She is most well-known for her translation of popular YA series such as The Hunger Games, Divergent and Twilight series and she also translates Jason Reynold’s books into Dutch. She also adapted Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ for Dutch adolescents and wrote two youth novels, together with Maarten Bruns. Her translations have won multiple awards, including the Filter translation prize for youth translation. 

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