Michele Hutchison
@michehut.bsky.social
Translator, editor, writer, poet
Here's one of my own after a yoghurt incident. #translatorswithcats
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Here's one of my own after a yoghurt incident. #translatorswithcats
Ali Smith at Edinburgh international book festival today, so brilliant I just sat there crying. The AI live captioning, on the other hand, was laughable.
August 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ali Smith at Edinburgh international book festival today, so brilliant I just sat there crying. The AI live captioning, on the other hand, was laughable.
@wcorklitfest.bsky.social excellent comparative translation event in Bantry library today with Sarah Ardizzone & Antain Mac Lochlainn on Gaël Faye's novel Petit pays in English & Irish translation @antainmac.bsky.social @literatureireland.bsky.social can't wait to read the book now.
July 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@wcorklitfest.bsky.social excellent comparative translation event in Bantry library today with Sarah Ardizzone & Antain Mac Lochlainn on Gaël Faye's novel Petit pays in English & Irish translation @antainmac.bsky.social @literatureireland.bsky.social can't wait to read the book now.
This graphic is better!
July 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This graphic is better!
I'll be appearing at Edinburgh book festival on 17th August with the famous Dutch children's author Anna Woltz. Come and listen to us discuss her forthcoming historical novel Under the London Sky (De tunnel), set during the Blitz. #EdBookFest @edbookfest.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'll be appearing at Edinburgh book festival on 17th August with the famous Dutch children's author Anna Woltz. Come and listen to us discuss her forthcoming historical novel Under the London Sky (De tunnel), set during the Blitz. #EdBookFest @edbookfest.bsky.social
From Jen Calleja's brilliant book Fair, The Life-Art of Translation. #translatorpay #freelancersequity
June 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
From Jen Calleja's brilliant book Fair, The Life-Art of Translation. #translatorpay #freelancersequity
"Translation handcrafted without the use of generative AI" Copyright page of one of my forthcoming translations.
June 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"Translation handcrafted without the use of generative AI" Copyright page of one of my forthcoming translations.
Thrilled to see My Heavenly Favourite on the Oxford-Weidenfeld longlist alongside some other fantastic books and translators, including my friend and colleague Kristen Gehrman.
May 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thrilled to see My Heavenly Favourite on the Oxford-Weidenfeld longlist alongside some other fantastic books and translators, including my friend and colleague Kristen Gehrman.
The novel is narrated by a range of things, from the crime scene itself to the story, the body, a pen, senile dementia and the smell of orange peel. An excellent translation challenge! Published by World Editions #dublinliteraryaward
March 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The novel is narrated by a range of things, from the crime scene itself to the story, the body, a pen, senile dementia and the smell of orange peel. An excellent translation challenge! Published by World Editions #dublinliteraryaward
Pushkin Press's jacket design for Fall, Bomb, Fall. My first translation of a Dutch classic! #libf2025 @pushkinpress.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Pushkin Press's jacket design for Fall, Bomb, Fall. My first translation of a Dutch classic! #libf2025 @pushkinpress.com
Two of my translations on the longlist for the 2025 Dublin Literary Prize! Hup Holland!
January 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Two of my translations on the longlist for the 2025 Dublin Literary Prize! Hup Holland!
Here we are: DELTRANS. Dutch-to-English translators getting together to discuss the sudden drop-off in work, the uses and misuses of AI, editing and publicity. Thanks to the Amsterdam Vertalershuis for hosting us. @davidcolmer.bsky.social (anyone else on bsky yet?)
December 8, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Here we are: DELTRANS. Dutch-to-English translators getting together to discuss the sudden drop-off in work, the uses and misuses of AI, editing and publicity. Thanks to the Amsterdam Vertalershuis for hosting us. @davidcolmer.bsky.social (anyone else on bsky yet?)
Sunday reading. Research for my translation of Anna Woltz's De tunnel/The Tunnel. YA set during the Blitz.
October 27, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Sunday reading. Research for my translation of Anna Woltz's De tunnel/The Tunnel. YA set during the Blitz.
Finished the first draft of Kouwenaar's Fall, Bomb! Translated simultaneously into Spanish by Gonzalo Fernandez Gomez. #paralleltranslation
January 25, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Finished the first draft of Kouwenaar's Fall, Bomb! Translated simultaneously into Spanish by Gonzalo Fernandez Gomez. #paralleltranslation
Yesterday's workshop on poetry translation from Dutch into any language. So interesting to compare notes between language combinations.#vertaaldagen
December 10, 2023 at 11:07 AM
Yesterday's workshop on poetry translation from Dutch into any language. So interesting to compare notes between language combinations.#vertaaldagen