St George is England’s patron saint – and Catalonia’s. April 23, his day is traditionally when Catalans celebrate all kinds of love, by giving red roses, as St George is supposed to have given one to the princess he saved from the…
Monthly Archives: April 2015
books and roses
Tagged with: books, Catalonia, Cervantes, Edith Grossmann, England, Matias de Velasco y Rojas, roses, Shakespeare, Spanish, Thomas Shelton, Translation, Vicete Clavel
Posted in international, literature
Posted in international, literature
tasting translation: Aed
Translators on holiday should not be left free to analyse a menu for too long. But sometimes they are pleasantly surprised. I was in Tallinn for 48 hours only with a fluent Estonian speaker. Delight soon replaced my initial disorientation and…
Don’t translate this!
When should you say no to translation? Sometimes saying yes can be just too dangerous – the translator is drawn into an ethical dilemma or puts their life at risk. For a fascinating discussion of this issue with experts in…
Tagged with: Alice Guthrie, Anna Politkovskaya, Arabic, Arch Tait, Literary Translation, London Book Fair, NoPeanuts, Rebranding the Levant, Russian, Tenzin Dickie, Tibetan, Translation, TreasuryOfLives
Posted in literature
Posted in literature
Rejoice! or Exult?
Catholics should be used to the new English translation of the Latin liturgy after four years. But at times like Easter, which particularly cut through and beyond time, it’s familiar words we want. The premise for the new translation was…
Tagged with: Easter, Exsultet, ICEL, Latin, Rita Ferrone, St Jerome, Translation, Virgil
Posted in faith, translation
Posted in faith, translation
found in translation 