Coming across new vocabulary is one of the great pleasures of translating, and I can’t help but share my delight in coming across the...

I feel rather silly that I hadn't thought of looking for magpies on youtube before. After all, Pica Pica Press is interested in all...

Let me explain. These are nouns that are common in the sense that they are both masculine and feminine. (Ahem—some may actually remember...

I have often been tantalizingly informed that the characters in Ričardas Gavelis’s fiction are recognizably based on real people in...

I’m afraid recent events are, as usual, intruding upon the subject of translation, or is it the other way around? But how could you...

My friend Giedrius Subačius asked me a question I ponder often: which books or writers I’ve translated were the most difficult? The glib...

Well, a major read of Tūla is coming to a close, and I must admit, I feel rather sorry; it’s been so much fun. An aspect of Kunčinas’s...

Jurgis Kunčinas twice uses the appellation, in Lithuanian, gatvių artojai, "plowmen of the streets" in the novel Tūla. The plowing refers...

Once again, the twenty-tome Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language has come to my rescue, this time cheering me with one of its examples...

Sidetracks are a professional hazard for a translator; after all, you need to know every last bit of it, don't you? Translating Jurgis...

"The councils which magpies appear to build together, at particular seasons, commonly called "folkmotes,'' are associated in the minds of...