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.…
Another Polish Oscar? Body/Ciało
Tagged with: body/ciało, Film, Małgorzata Szumowska, Polish, Translation
Posted in film, gender, translation
Posted in film, gender, translation
Happy Birthday translators!
Happy 60th Birthday to us! The Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters (SKTL) is 60 this year. The party has started: a lively exhibition opens tomorrow. The opening tonight was a celebration of linguistic skills and challenges in a multicultural…
Tagged with: Anne Kerhola, Caisa, diaspora, Finnish, Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters, happy birthday, Illustration, Poetry, Sivuvalo, Swedish, Translation
Posted in international, language, literature, poetry, translation, words
Posted in international, language, literature, poetry, translation, words
listen! – auf, wrzzz, shhhh…
It isn’t easy to explain a translator’s work to your nephews when they are just learning to read, but when I heard Saara Pääkkönen, who translates the Donald Duck comics into Finnish, explaining that she drops objects to hear what sound they…
Tagged with: Andrew Shields, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Finnish, German, Lyrikline, Maria Lyytinen, Poetry, Polish, Risto Oikarinen, Saara Pääkönen, Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Translation, Ulrike Draesner
Posted in poetry
Posted in poetry
Take the City Home
It’s autumn holiday week here – the sun is retreating, schools are on mid-term break, and summer is starting to seem like a distant memory. It’s time to escape the daily grind if at all possible. But what will you…
Tagged with: Austin Hyde, Camoes, Czesław Miłosz, David Brooks, history, Lisbon Poets, Louis Iribane, Martin D'Evelin, Polish, Portuguese, Translation, Warsaw
Posted in books, literature, poetry
Posted in books, literature, poetry
Europe on Air: Warsaw, Berlin, Istanbul
Being read to isn’t only for children. If you, like me, work closely with complicated texts all day, however much you love reading, it can feel like an effort on workday evenings. But great world literature is just within earshot.…
Tagged with: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, BBC Radio 4, Berlin, Elif Shafak, Entanglement, Finnish, German, Istanbul, Jamie Bulloch, Look Who's Back, Marja-Leena Jaakkola, Polish, Reading Europe, Svetlana Alexeievich, three percent, Timur Vermes, Warsaw, Zygmunt Miłoszewski
Posted in books, literature, radio, translation
Posted in books, literature, radio, translation
“It is time to speak out”: Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate 2015
Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature for her “Polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Born in Ukraine to a Ukrainian mother and a Belarusian father, she worked as…
Tagged with: Belarusian, Jerzy Czech, Julia R Robin Whitby, Literature, Nobel Prize, Polish, Russian, Ryszard Kapuściński, Svetlana Alexievich, Translation, Ukrainian
Posted in books, literature, translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
International Translation Day 2015: Translating for Refugees
Happy International Translation Day! This year’s theme is The changing face of translation and interpreting, celebrating the people “who make it possible for the world to be a global village”. Right now, the need is very concrete: translating and interpreting for…
Tagged with: Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Finnish, Greek, International Translation Day, Pashto, Red Cross, Refugee Phrasebook, Translation, Translators Without Borders
Posted in international, translation
Posted in international, translation
Do Geese See God?
Do geese see God? (English) Knit again and you’ll get a beer (Neulo taas niin saat oluen, Finnish) It was raining bread in the garden (Aias sadas saia, Estonian) Maybe tomorrow that lady will give a cake to the hedgehogs…
Tagged with: English, Esperanto, Estonian, European Day of Languages, Finnish, Free Word Centre, German, Latin, Palindromes, Polish
Posted in language, translation, words
Posted in language, translation, words
German Book Prize Shortlisters in Translation
The German Book Prize short list is out today! Three women, three Swiss writers and four with other books published in English in the last three years have made the cut. In my very subjective order of preference, they are:…
Tagged with: Eluned Gramich, Eugene Hayworth, Frank Witzel, German, German Book Prize, Inger-Maria Mahlke, Jenny Erpenbeck, Martin Chalmers, Monique Schwitter, Rolf Lappert, Susan Bernofsky, Swiss, Translation, Ulrich Peltzer
Posted in books, literature
Posted in books, literature
Now and at the Hour of our Death
This beautiful book is published by And Other Stories this week. It isn’t easy to write about the dying and their loved ones without falling into clichés and platitudes, especially in such a beautiful setting as rural northern Portugal: “Grass…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, books, Edinburgh Festival, Julia Sanches, Now and at the Hour of our Death, Portuguese, Susana Moreira Marques, Translation
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival
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