Once upon a time there was a little ghost. It lived all alone in the forest. All the other ghosts were born in the forest because they died there. They were very old or very young, and their families were…
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the ghost child
Tagged with: Finnish, Illustration, Language, Literature, Moomins, pubilc libraries, subtitles, Terhi Ekebom, The Ghost Child
Posted in Illustration, language, literature, translation
Posted in Illustration, language, literature, translation
hobbit scripts
It is that time of year again – time for the next Hobbit movie, a chance to escape back into the magical world of Middle Earth. The first Hobbit film was too long, but it was also the first film I saw…
Tagged with: Anglo Saxon, Cirith, Elvish, Finnish, Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, Language, Literature, Lord of the Rings, Runes, Scripts, Tengwar, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Tibetan, Transliteration, Welsh, words
Posted in international, language, literature, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, translation, words
Posted in international, language, literature, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, translation, words
between two Thomases: 100 years of R. S. and Dylan
“My chief aim is to make a poem. You make it for yourself firstly, and then if other people want to join in then there we are,” said R. S. Thomas. We’re half way through his centenary year: a Welsh…
Tagged with: A Welsh Landscape, A Welsh Testament, Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas, Language, Literature, Poetry, R. S. Thomas, Swansea, Under Milk Wood, Wales, Welsh
Posted in language, literature, poetry
Posted in language, literature, poetry
translate for your life: Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Known as the “pope of literature” to Germans, and self-styled as “Germany’s literary hangman”, Marcel Reich-Ranicki was not an easy critic. He unapologetically followed Fontane’s maxim that “Schlecht ist schlecht und muß gesagt warden” (Erst leben, dann spielen. Über polnische Literatur. Wallstein 2002, p.183). His life was not easy,…
Tagged with: German, Ghetto, history, Holocaust Memorial Day, Jewish, Language, Literature, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish, Translation, Warszawa
Posted in history, language, literature, translation
Posted in history, language, literature, translation
radość pisania – the joy of writing
One of my favourite poets, in the original and then in translation by a wonderful team.
to begin at the beginning…
Robert Bringhurst says of one of his own complex poems (involving three layers of text to be read/spoken simultaneously) that ‘The ideal reader for this poem…is not a person with three heads but a person with two friends.’
found in translation 