Kyo Gerrits from the INCREC-project interviews Roos van de Wardt. She is a literary translator, lecturer and mentor for translation studies, and she also works at the ‘Cultural Pharmacy’ where they offer consultations and write out tailored book-prescriptions. She has studied English language and literature and Translation Studies at the University of Utrecht, where she received a Top Talent Grant. She translates mainly from English to Dutch and has translated a host of different works, authors and genres, from Deborah Levy’s autobiographies, to novels by Jenny Offill and Nick Hornby and even also some illustrated works, for instance one on baby animals. She has also worked on the Crossing Border Festival, teaches translation, and she is a mentor for starting literary translators.

Ana Guerberof-Arenas⁠ from the INCREC project interviews Amalie Foss⁠. She is a copywriter, AV translator and co-founder of the Medietekst Danmark. She works as a news subtitler at TV2, which is Denmarks second national public service broadcaster. Amalie is also the president of the Audiovisal Translators Europe and the chair of the AV Group of Translators within the Danish Union of Journalists. She mainly translates from English, Swedish and Norwegian into Danish.

Ana Guerberof-Arenas from the INCREC project interviews Guillermo Parra López. He is a translator, subtitler, reviewer, lecturer in translation and audiovisual translation and researcher based between Menorca and Quebec. He translates from English, German and French into Spanish and Catalan. Guillermo has translated films and series for large streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon, as well as for festivals such as the Americana Film Festival. Together with Blanca Arias Badía and Damián Santilli, he runs the Spanish podcast En sincronía. Furthermore, he has been nominated to 6 ATRAE awards for subtitling (ATRAE is the Spanish Association for Audiovisual Translation).

Ana Guerberof-Arenas from the INCREC project interviews Xènia Dykonova. Xènia is a poet, translator, literary critic, writing teacher and publisher based in Barcelona. She was born in Saint Petersburg in 1985, but then moved with her family to Catalonia where she studied Literature and Comparative Literature in Barcelona University. She has published her poems in several literary magazines in San Petersburg and Moscow, but she has also published two poem collections in Catalan. As a translator, she has translated into Catalan and Spanish novels, essays, poems, articles from Anton Chekhov, Anna Politkovskaya, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Bulgakov, Daniil Kharms, Alexander Kushner and many others. For her work, she has received the prizes Premi Vidal Alcover (2016) and the PEN prize in Translation (2018). She has co-translated with José Mateo Martínez several literary works, and they have also funded Vacamú, a publishing house based in Barcelona.

Ana Guerberof-Arenas from the INCREC project interviews Addie Brand. Addie Brand studied English at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, and then she did a Master in Translation at Utrecht University. She worked briefly as a translator for Booking.com, but then she quickly switched to subtitling at the Dutch subtitling company VSI, where she was trained to subtitle from English into Dutch, mainly reality and comedy shows for three years. She has been working for inVision Subtitling for thirteen years. Furthermore, she is a project manager, but she also does proofreading of corporate videos, videos for museums and television shows, from English into Dutch (and vice versa), but also same language subtitling.

Ana Guerberof-Arenas from the INCREC project interviews Damián Santilli. Damián is a translator, subtitler, reviewer, lecturer in translation and audiovisual translation, speaker, organizer based in Buenos Aires. He has translated over 1,000 episodes of TV series for different American networks like TNT, MTV, Fox, and many others. In addition, he has subtitled movies for local TV networks and international and national film festivals. He is the creator and director of the MA in Translation Technology, Localization and Audiovisual Translation in the University of Buenos Aires and also professor of the BA in Sworn Translation at the same university. He created the conference HispaTAV that deals with audiovisual translation in the Spanish language, and he also runs the Spanish podcast En sincronía with Blanca Arias Badía and Guillermo Parra.

Ana Guerberof-Arenas from the INCREC project interviews Robbert-Jan Henkes. He is a translator, editor, writer and performer. He has translated The Beatles and Bob Dylan, Wagner arias, poetry by Kharms, stories by Woody Allen, Anatoli Mariëngof, Navokov, Dovlatov, De Quincey, Ardrej Tarkovsky, theathre by Shakespeare, among many other works of literature. He co-translated with Erik Bindervoet Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and they edited the Oxford Classics version of the same book. He translates from English, Russian and German into Dutch.