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S.F. Williamson


Genre
Fiction, Fantasy


S. F. Williamson is fascinated by the way languages are born and was surrounded by them long before she undertook a degree in French and Italian.

From her Grandma’s rolling Scottish R’s and her Nan’s ability to slip from English to Welsh, to the dialect spoken in the French village she grew up in, Steph has always known that languages are creatures that live and move and breathe.

As a child she learned that speaking them meant accessing ideas, traditions and people she would only otherwise know from a distance. Her debut novel, A Language of Dragons, is inspired by her work as a literary translator and the fact that no matter how intimately a linguist knows their languages, some meaning is almost always lost in translation. A graduate of Bath ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 17,811 ratings · 4,467 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
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Series by S.F. Williamson

A Language of Dragons A War of Wyverns
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“People shouldn’t fear their prime ministers. Prime ministers should fear their people.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
tags: inspirational, political
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“El aprendizaje de idiomas —y la traducción en particular— tiene que ver con dar voz a la gente, a especies y a países, abriéndolos al mundo. No aprender más que lenguas humanas sería encerrarnos en nosotros mismos, sería como borrar a los dragones y su historia de la faz de la Tierra.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
tags: arte, traducción, traduction
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“Sometimes I wake up in the night and it’s there, beside me in bed, the guilt. Like a dark void waiting to suck me in.’

Atlas takes my hand. ‘Then tell it to go away,’ he whispers fiercely. He presses his lips to my ear. ‘Banish it, like a dragon banishes the dark.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
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