If you speak a language well enough to get along, but not really well, it’s an effort. You need time to think and process and a lot of energy can go into making sure you get the grammar right. As…
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moral language?
Tagged with: Albert Costa, English, French, international, Korean, language learning, moral language, Spanish, Translation
Posted in international, language, translation
Posted in international, language, 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
European literature night 2014: words, pictures, and wheels
With a mission to bring new books from around the continent to the people, tonight is the sixth European literature night. In co-operation with 28 European National Institutes for Culture, the Czech organisers have brought the event to 24 cities this…
Tagged with: Belgian, bike, British Library, Czech, Europe, European Literature Night, Finnish, German, graphic novels, Iceland, Illustration, Judith Vanistendael, Kaisa Leka, Line Hoven, Literature, Lucie Lomova, Max, Polish, Spanish, Translation, Witold Szabłowski
Posted in European Literature Night, Illustration, international, literature, translation
Posted in European Literature Night, Illustration, international, literature, translation
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
holy languages for holy week
The holy books of Christians and Jews are a complex mixture of languages and manuscripts that gloriously overlap and contradict. There are more and more chances to see this huge diversity coming together. Two exhibitions, similar content, different title: verbum…
Tagged with: Agnes Lewis, Aramaic, Bible, codex sinaiticus, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Old English, Russian, Syriac, syriac sinaiticus, Translation, Verbum Domini exhibition
Posted in faith, international, language, translation
Posted in faith, international, language, translation
on your bike
It’s spring: time to get out on your bike, if you’re a fair weather cyclist, or, take the winter tyres off and carry on riding, if you’re a Finnish cyclist like me. But what has that got to do with…
Tagged with: Baltic, Kiswahili, Polish, Training, Translation, Translators Without Borders, Volunteers
Posted in international, language, translation
Posted in international, language, translation
april fish!
Happy April Fool’s Day! If you’re English, you’ve only got till noon to play your tricks or you’re the fool. If you’re over the channel, your day may involve April Fish, usually made of paper and attached to someone’s back…
Tagged with: April Fool, English, Flemish, French, Idioms, Italian, Language, Languages, Translation, words
Posted in April Fool's Day, international, language, words
Posted in April Fool's Day, international, language, words
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