This one is desperately sad, and it stays with you. The Door should have prepared me for more the direct emotion, the weight of history, the unflinching look at how the characters – people more like you and me than we’d care…
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Iza’s Ballad
Tagged with: books, Budapest, George Szirtes, Hungarian, Iza's Ballad, Magda Szabo, mothers and daughters, Translation
Posted in books, gender, history, translation
Posted in books, gender, history, 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
translators are like
If you google “translators are like”, you get: translators are like ninjas translators are like google bad translators are like big hairy spiders. While this has a lot going for it (we’re saboteurs, expert data crunchers – or terribly self-referential? –…
Tagged with: Central Europe, George Szirtes, Ginger Rogers, Hungarian, Kristina Zdravič Reardon, left-handed, shoes, Slovene, Spanish, Translation, translator
Posted in international, language, literature, translation
Posted in international, language, literature, translation
