Wake up! Wrocław is the new European capital of culture, and a year of celebrations kicks off this weekend. It is a gorgeous city with a complex cultural history – go if you haven’t yet – which has produced some world-class…
Drama in Wrocław: European Capital of Culture 2016
Tagged with: Adam Czerniawski, European Capital of Culture, Gerhart Hauptmann, German, Kafka, Mary Morison, Polish, Tadeusz Różewicz, The Trap, The Weavers, theatre, Translation, Wrocław
Posted in literature, theatre, translation
Posted in literature, theatre, translation
A personal reading trainer
It’s that time of year when people vow to get fit, lose their bad habits and slough off all the holiday indulgence. And I’ve finally found the kind of personal trainer I’m looking for. How about a personal reading…
Tagged with: Agneta Enkell, Anselm Hollo, David McDuff, Electric Verses, Finnish, Herbert Lomas, Merja Virolainen, Mirkka Rekola, personal reading trainer, Poetry, pubilc libraries, Riina Katajavuori, Swedish, Translation, Tua Försstrom
Posted in poetry, translation
Posted in poetry, translation
A Welsh New Year Wish
Cold is the man who can’t love, The old mountains of dear Wales, To him and his warmest friend, A cheerful holiday next year. Cold is the snow on Mount Snowdon, Even though it has a flannel blanket on it,…
Tagged with: Christmas Carols, John Ceiriog Hughes, New Year, Translation, Welsh
Posted in Christmas, translation
Posted in Christmas, translation
‘Jack Finn’s Carols
Finnish Christmas carols are often seen as extraordinarily depressing. That isn’t quite fair. In fact, we have a Finn (Jaakko Suomalainen, Jacobus Finno) to thank for some of the best loved carols worldwide. He was a priest and head of the…
Tagged with: Christmas Carols, Finnish, Jacobus Finno, Latin, Piae Cantiones, Swedish, Translation
Posted in Christmas, history, translation
Posted in Christmas, history, translation
A Translation for every Teenager
Every teenager in Sweden should get a translation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We should all be Feminists in time for Christmas. What would I give every teenager in translation into English? Something from a teenage perspective: Their peers are more likely…
Tagged with: Blake Ferris, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Farsi, Kannada, Malala Yousafzai, Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa, Persepolis, Polish, Rutka Laskier, Swedish, Translation, Young Adult
Posted in books, film, gender, international, translation
Posted in books, film, gender, international, translation
Learn Finnish by Christmas
Finland is 98 today. You can celebrate all the way to Christmas by learning the language. Don’t worry, it’s not as hard as you think. You can learn a new word every day with the Finland emoji Advent calendar. Catch…
Tagged with: advent, emoji, Finnish, Language, Oxford English Dictionary, Santa Claus, Translation
Posted in Illustration, language, translation
Posted in Illustration, language, translation
Waiting for the dawn
It’s advent. It’s still getting darker. The earth is drained of colour, finally covered in snow, waiting for spring. People are on the move, looking for a place to rest safely. It’s a waiting time. Waiting for the wilderness to…
Tagged with: advent, Dawood Azami, Parween Faiz Zadah Malaal, Pashto, Poetry, Poetry Translation Centre, Translation
Posted in Christmas, poetry, translation
Posted in Christmas, poetry, translation
Thanksgiving for native languages
It’s time to give thanks. What for, exactly? This Thanksgiving, give thanks for the 130 endangered native languages in the USA, and the people keeping them alive. Give thanks for Marie Wilcox. Born on Thanksgiving Day 1933, Marie is the last fluent…
Tagged with: American, Comanche, Juanita Pahdopony, Marie Wilcox, native languages of the Americas, thanksgiving, Translation, Words without Borders, Wukchumni, Yokuts
Posted in language, poetry, translation
Posted in language, poetry, translation
Thank you for the stories
When I moved to Finland 3 years and 3 months ago, I barely knew the language. All I could read was the free supermarket adverts that came through the door, matching the products to multi-vowelled words underneath ( ääs and…
Tagged with: Aleksis Kivi, British Library, Children's Books, Finnish, Johanna Sinisalo, Maria Turtschaninoff, Mikkeli, Moomins, Nordic Library Week, Roald Dahl, Rosa Liksom, Salla Simukka, Seven Brothers, Tove Jansson, Translation
Posted in books, literature
Posted in books, literature
Another Polish Oscar? Body/Ciało
Małgorzata Szumowska’s Body/Ciało is just out on DVD with English subtitles. It swept the board as Polish film of the year, it’s editor won the European film editor of the year, and it’s director won a Silver Bear in Berlin.…
Tagged with: body/ciało, Film, Małgorzata Szumowska, Polish, Translation
Posted in film, gender, translation
Posted in film, gender, translation
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