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CONTENTS
News & editorial
BREXIT VOTE: LANGUAGE
ORGANISATIONS RESPOND . 5
INSIDE PARLIAMENT . . . . . . . 6
Analysis of the Value of Languages report
Fiction in translation
A NEW CHAPTER . . . . . . . . . . 8
Why the new Booker is a "win" for translation
THE VOICE OF WOMEN . . . 10
Why aren't more female authors translated?
TRANSLATED BY AMAZON . 14
Inside the largest publisher of translated fiction
GREAT EXPECTATIONS . . . . 16
The inspiring story of a prize-winning translator
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Editor M Moore linguist.editor@ciol.org.uk
Sales D Butler +44 (0) 20 7940 3100; deborah.butler@ciol.org.uk
Editorial Board
Chair K Paver MA (Oxon) PgDip MCIL MITI
D Butler BA (Hons) (ex officio)
A Carlisle MA (ex officio)
J Guardamagna BA MCIL IAPTI APARU
H Gulowsen DipTrans IoLET CL (Translator) MCIL MITI
M Kilminster BA ATCL
D Langton MA (Cantab) DipTrans IoLET MCIL BDUe TA VdUe
L Melcion MA (Surrey) DipTrans IoLET PG Cert Ed MCIL
K Stokes MA (Oxon) MA (City) DipTrans IoLET FCIL MITI CL
M Moore BA (ex officio)
Dr M Pollard BA PhD FCIL FHEA
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Features
THE BIG IDEA . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Q&A with Girl Gone International founder
TEARING UP THE BOOK . . 18
Should modern foreign languages
teaching move away from the textbook?
CHANNEL VISION . . . . . . . 20
An England-based legal interpreter on the
challenges of working in the Channel Islands
DESKTOP WARFARE . . . . . 22
A look at the bilingual activists using the
internet to resist information control in China
Reviews
BOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Burning of Books and Good on Paper
Opinion & comment
BREXIT: WHAT NEXT? . . . . . 26
UNITED IN DIVERSITY . . . . . 27
Post-referendum comment on the likely
challenges for linguists of leaving the EU
TEACHER ON TOUR . . . . . . 28
Our columnist ends her travels in Chile
MASTER IN THE MAKING . . 29
The exam period is an isolating experience
LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Institute matters
DIVISIONS & SOCIETIES . . . 32
Don't miss out on all our forthcoming events
A LIFE WITH LANGUAGES . 33
FOSTERING TRUST . . . . . . . . 34
Chris Pountain on his role as IoLET Chair
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