The Man Booker longlist is out – though not all the books are yet – and the one I’m likely to demolish as soon as it’s published is Almost English, because it feels like familiar territory. But the Man Booker International…
Monthly Archives: July 2013
mihi placet
mihi placet. That’s how to “like” something in Latin. Facebook will ask you “quid in animo tuo est?” instead of “what’s on your mind?” Hopefully not everyone will respond with MC (short for magno cachinno = LOL). For describing those…
how far would you go for a good translation?
Once upon a time there was a young woman called Mary Jones. She was Welsh. She wanted to read the bible in her own language. So she saved for 6 years and walked 26 miles to get a copy. The End?…
radość pisania – the joy of writing
One of my favourite poets, in the original and then in translation by a wonderful team.
to begin at the beginning…
Robert Bringhurst says of one of his own complex poems (involving three layers of text to be read/spoken simultaneously) that ‘The ideal reader for this poem…is not a person with three heads but a person with two friends.’
found in translation 