Victor Obiols told he had wrong ‘profile’, the second case after Dutch writer resigned from same role

Obiols was informed he was ‘not the right person’ to translate Amanda Gorman’s poem into Catalan.

The Catalan translator for the poem that American writer Amanda Gorman read at US president Joe Biden’s inauguration has said he has been removed from the job because he had the wrong “profile”.

It was the second such case in Europe after Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld resigned from the job of translating Gorman’s work following criticism that a black writer was not chosen.

‘Shocked by the uproar’: Amanda Gorman’s white translator quits
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“They told me that I am not suitable to translate it,” Catalan translator Victor Obiols told AFP on Wednesday.… Lês fierder

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Lês fierder by It Nijs. Dêr stiet ek in link nei de fakatuere.… Lês fierder

Yn juny ferskynt nei sân jier stilte ‘de nije Hylke’. Testamint fan de siel spilet yn Kanada en bringt de libbens fan twa bysûndere manlju op jierren byinoar. In fraachpetear mei de skriuwer: ,,Blykber haw ik in net te bedimjen driuw om ferhalen te fertellen.”

Lês fierder by Abe de Vries op de side fan it Friesch Dagblad… Lês fierder

The International Booker winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has written a poem responding to the controversy that broke out after they withdrew from the job of translating Amanda Gorman’s poetry into Dutch, writing that they took the decision because they were “able to grasp when it / isn’t your place”.
Everything inhabitable: a poem by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
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The non-binary author and poet had been announced by Dutch publisher Meulenhoff as the translator of Gorman’s forthcoming collection The Hill We Climb, named after the poem performed by Gorman at US president Joe Biden’s inauguration in January. But after questions were raised in the press and on social media over why the book’s translator was not, like Gorman, a “spoken-word artist, young, female and unapologetically Black”, Rijneveld said they would be pulling out of the project.… Lês fierder

De boeken fan Theodor Seuss Geisel binne yn mear as tweintich talen oerset. Under de skriuwersnamme Dr. Seuss makke de Amerikaanske skriuwer goed sechtich berneboeken fol humoristyske plaatsjes en ûnsinrymkes. De kat met de hoed, ien fan syn bekendste boeken helle sels in Amerikaanske postsegel.

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De wereldberoemde klassieker Jane Eyre is nu ook beschikbaar in het Fries. Jant van der Weg-Laverman uit Leeuwarden stortte zich op verzoek van een Schotse uitgeverij op het vierhonderd bladzijden tellende meesterwerk van Charlotte Brontë.

Lês fierder by it Friesch Dagblad… Lês fierder