One of my earliest language-learning memories is of hot summer afternoons in the early years of high school, when even our unquenchably enthusiastic Welsh teacher would give up and just tell us stories. Of a land far far away, where children…
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O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau: Patagonia 150
Tagged with: Language, Patagonia, Translation, Welsh, Y Wladfa
Posted in history, international, language, translation
Posted in history, international, language, translation
The world through your letterbox: PEN World Bookshelf
English PEN has just announced more support for independent publishers to publish works in translation, which is great news since the independents are the ones producing the really interesting stuff. Their world bookshelf of contemporary writers in supported by the PEN…
Tagged with: Anna Politkovskaya, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Arch Tait, Finnish, German, Jenny Erpenbeck, Johanna Sinisalo, Literature, Lola Rogers, PEN Translates, Polish, Rosa Liksom, Russian, Sarah Bernofsky, Translation, Witold Szabłowski, World Bookshelf
Posted in literature, translation
Posted in literature, translation
The little black fish swims back out to sea
Tiny Owl is a new children’s book publisher with a noble aim: to “introduce the cream of the crop of global children’s literature, contemporary and old, to the English speaking audience.” Their 2015 catalogue focuses on Persian treasures, and it’s moving,…
Tagged with: Azita Rassi, Farshid Meshgali, Farsi, Iran, Little Black Fish, Persian, Samad Behrangi, Tiny Owl, Translation
Posted in literature, translation
Posted in literature, translation
Women’s World Cup of Literature: Cameroon vs. Switzerland
The Women’s World Cup of Literature kicks off today, with a Francophone first fixture. I wasn’t the only one to be both delighted by a world cup I really wanted to follow last year, but complain about the lack of female…
Tagged with: Cameroon, French, Leonora Miano, Literature, Noelle Revaz, Switzerland, Tamsin Black, Translation, W. Donald Wilson, World Cup of Literature
Posted in literature, translation, World Cup of Literature
Posted in literature, translation, World Cup of Literature
Translating Maciej Miłkowski: Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize
“To write a novel (or indeed a short story) you need two ideas – equally strong, equally developed – and only later it turns out that they were one idea after all, two pillars of one foundation.” “Żeby napisać powieść…
Tagged with: Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize, Maciej Miłkowski, Polish, Translation, Wist
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Fairy Tales in Translation: Jack Zipes and Jan Pieńkowski
It’s European Literature Night tonight, and this whole week the British Academy in London is celebrating fairy tales. This lunchtime Jack Zipes, who translates fairy tales in German, Italian and English, will be talking at the British Academy about his The…
Tagged with: Azeri, British Academy, Brothers Grimm, David Walser, European Literature Night, fairy tales, German, Igor Karash, Illustration, Jack Zipes, Jan Pieńkowski, Madalina Adronic, Polish, Romanian, Translation
Posted in books, European Literature Night, Folklore, Illustration, international, translation
Posted in books, European Literature Night, Folklore, Illustration, international, translation
70 Years of Victory in Europe: Māori stories
Millions of non-Europeans are only starting to get the recognition they deserve for their contribution to the end of “the world’s war in Europe”. You might know that 1.5 million Indians fought alongside 5m Brits at the end of empire,…
Tagged with: 28th Battalion, Italian, Language, Maori, Translation, VE Day
Posted in history, international, translation
Posted in history, international, translation
Workers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose in translation
Billy Bragg had a 24-hour job at a moment’s notice. He was not going to get paid for his overtime. But he was on a mission. And he made the deadline. Hear him tell the story and sing his translation.…
Tagged with: American, Billy Bragg, British, Charles Hope Kerr, Chinese, English, Eugene Pottier, Finnish, French, German, internationale, Pertti Uotila, Pete Seeger, Polish, Russian, Tagalog, Thomas Nicholas, Tiananmen Square, Translation, Welsh
Posted in international, translation
Posted in international, translation
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
Transatlantic – unpacking Gombrowicz’s baggage
“My work is very chic, like a luggage set: the large suitcase, my novels; two medium-sized cases, my Diary and my plays; the small case, my short stories.” (Witold Gombrowicz) Danuta Borchardt’s translation of Gombrowicz’s Transatlantyk is on the PEN Translation Prize Longlist. Yet again she…
Tagged with: Argentina, Czesław Miłosz, Danuta Borchardt, Gombrowicz, PEN Translation Prize, Polish, Transatlantic, Translation
Posted in literature, translation
Posted in literature, translation
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