Tired of bad translations? Put the poetry back into translation yourself! At the Modern Poetry in Translation website, you can read submit your own English translation of a poem, based on a literal translation and sound recording in the original…
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Tagged with: Alberto Caeiro, Carmen Bugan, Christine Marendon, Czesław Miłosz, Daniel Weissbort, First World War, German, Ken Cockburn, Miroslav Holub, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry, Portuguese, Romanian, Ted Hughes, Translation, Zbigniew Herbert
Posted in books, international, translation, words
Posted in books, international, translation, words
My Voice: A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre
Here’s another nail in the coffin of Robert Frost’s truism that poetry is what gets lost in translation. The fabulous Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) is celebrating its first decade with My Voice, an anthology of poems translated from 23 languages…
Tagged with: Abdellatif Laâbi, Afghanistan, Andre Naffis-Sahely, Dari, French, Mimi Khalvati, Morocco, My Voice, Poetry, Poetry Translation Centre, Shakila Azizzada, Translation, Zuzanna Olszewska
Posted in books, international, language, literature, translation
Posted in books, international, language, literature, translation
waiting for translation: Tokarczuk’s Bieguni
You know that feeling when you’re waiting at an airport, trying to guess where other are from and where they are going? You start writing in your notebook, observing the man across from you, who is writing in his notebook,…
Tagged with: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Bieguni, English, Language, Literature, Olga Tokarczuk, Polish, Translation
Posted in books, international, language, literature, translation
Posted in books, international, language, literature, translation
world cup of literature: an even more beautiful game
Love football or hate it, you can’t ignore the World Cup. But if you’d rather read a good book, three percent is pitching readable works published this millennium from each World Cup qualifying country against each other. On the day…
Tagged with: books, Translation, what shall I read next?, World Cup of Literature
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, international, literature, poetry, translation, World Cup of Literature
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, international, literature, poetry, translation, World Cup of Literature
through different lenses: best translated book award 2014
Seeing the same author through the (rose-tinted, mirrored, bi- or tri-focal?) lenses of different translators is a refreshing, if potentially disorienting, experience. This year’s Best Translated Book Award (BTBA) allows the reader to do just that. The interesting thing about this years’…
Tagged with: Diana Thow, Elisa Biagni, Eugene Ostashevsky, George Szirtes, Hungarian, Italian, László Krasznohorkai, Literature, Ottilie Muzlet, Poetry, Sarah Stickney, Susan Sontag, Translation, translator
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, international, literature, poetry, translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, international, literature, poetry, translation
compartment no. 6
If you read one Finnish book in translation this year, this should be it. I’ve started reading it in Finnish and it is great. Appropriately, Rosa Liksom’s Compartment No. 6 comes out in English on International Workers’ Day. In it,…
Tagged with: Compartment No. 6, Estonian, Finlandia Prize, Finnish, Finnish English Translation Co-operative, Literature, Lola Rogers, Purge, Rosa Liksom, Sofi Oksanen, Translation, translator
Posted in books, gender, international, literature, translation
Posted in books, gender, international, literature, translation
three per cent: best translated book from German 2014
Just three percent of books published in the US are in translation, and less than one percent are literary fiction and poetry. The University of Rochester is trying to change that, with its three per cent website and Best Translated…
Tagged with: Austria, books, Christa Wolf, Damion Searls, drama, Elfriede Jelinek, English, feminist, German, Language, Literature, Nobel Prize, three per cent, Translation, translator, writing
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, international, literature, translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, international, literature, translation
world book day 2014: binge-read or savour?
World Book Day today, and there’s a £1 book for everyone under 18 in the British Isles (discussion of the politics of that short-hand term another time, please). There’s an app, there are trailers for the books, you can win a…
Tagged with: binge-reading, books, Children's literature, Finland, Finnish, Herbert Lomas, Language, Mirkka Rekola, Poetry, slow food movement, words
Posted in books, language, literature, Word of the Year 2013, words, World Book Day
Posted in books, language, literature, Word of the Year 2013, words, World Book Day
