Translating The Hunger Games & Twilight into Dutch | Ask a YA Translator 

What's it like to translate a classic like Frankenstein, do you change the names in YA translations and what does the day in a translator's life look like? You send it your questions, and I asked them to Maria Postema, a Dutch YA translator. P.s. Apologies about the echo!
This video isn't sponsored, but the publishers of Frankenstein, Blossom Books, were kind enough to put me in touch with Maria to arrange the interview.
Check out my previous interview with a Dutch to English literary translator, Laura Watkinson; • Being a Literary Trans...
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The Hunger Games/The Hongerspelen: / the-hunger-games
Frankenstein: / frankenstein
Long Way Down/67 Seconds: / long-way-down
All American Boys/Echte Amerikaanse jongens: / all-american-boys
Divergent/Inwijding: / divergent
Gone/Verlaten: / gone
The Sleeper and the Spindle/De Slaapster en de Spintol: / the-sleeper-and-the-sp...
Maria Postema and Maarten Bruns' book Dertiendagh: / dertiendagh
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• Can you review my book?
I’m always happy to hear about upcoming books, but I’m afraid I don’t review self-published books and can only accept a small number of books for review. I enjoy reading classics, dystopian/apocalyptic novels, sci-fi, translated fiction and a variety of graphic novels, YA and contemporary literary fiction.
• Where is your accent from?
I was born and raised in the Netherlands, studied English Lit at Leiden University (also in the Netherlands), studied in the US for 3 months and have lots of American friends. I'm definitely not Irish or Canadian, I promise!
• Where do you live?
I live in London and have been here for 6 years now.
• How did you get into publishing?
I did publishing work experience, did a lot of networking and learned everything I know about social media from creating and running this channel. (P.s. You don't necessarily have to study Publishing or English to get a job in publishing!).