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.…
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Europe on Air: Warsaw, Berlin, Istanbul
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
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
Tove Jansson 101: Riviera Memories
Tove Jansson turns 101 this Sunday. She was 61 exactly when I was born, so I will be celebrating at a secret location on the day, hence the advance nature of this post. What is there to celebrate this year? For…
Knausgaard: which translation?
Knausgård’s Min Kamp/My Struggle series are a publishing sensation and I had to see what all the fuss was about. Not being able to read them in Norwegian, I had a choice of four translations to choose from: English, Polish, German…
Tagged with: Don Bartlett, Finnish, German, Gombrowicz, Iwona Zimicka, Karl Ove Knausgård, Katriina Huttunen, Norwegian, Paul Berf, Polish, Swedish
Posted in books, international, literature, translation
Posted in books, international, literature, 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
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
The road to love: Valentine’s idioms
St Valentine was martyred in Rome about 1740 years ago today. What better way to honour him than with loving words in many languages? It’s been shown yet again, very entertainingly and by many translators, that idioms don’t translate easily,…
Tagged with: Crewe, Finnish, German, Glasgow, Haloo Helsinki, Idioms, John Clinch, Kouvola, Polish, Rome, trains, Translation, Valentine's Day, Wincher's Stance
Posted in international, language
Posted in international, language
Alarmingly elegant translations: The White Review
If Paris calls London “alarmingly elegant”, it’s worth taking another look. Especially if it’s in translation from all around the globe. This month’s online issue of The White Review is a box of delights. I like to claim my favourites first,…
Tagged with: Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentinian, Bill Johnston, Finnish, German, Herta Müller, Literature, London, Magdalena Tulli, Paris, Philip Boehm, Poetry, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, Translation, White Review, Yvette Siegert
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery
Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery, was the book I read by the Christmas tree this year; next year you could be doing the same. The splendid Pushkin Press has just bought the English rights. The author, the Swedish Finn…
Tagged with: Athos, Cornelia Funke, Fantasy, Fiction, Finlandia Junior 2014, Finnish, German, Goddess, Inkheart, J. R. R. Tolkien, Maresi, Maria Turtschaninoff, Marja Kyrö, Millenium trilogy, Pushkin Press, Stieg Larsson, Swedish, Translation, YA
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Posted in books
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