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.…
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Workers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose in 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
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
Visualising the translation: subtitling Pawlikowski’s Ida
Poland’s first Oscar for a ‘foreign language film’ went to Pawlikowski’s Ida this morning. Turning it from ‘foreign’ into English was not an easy process even for a film that the director, Paweł Pawlikowski, himself said in his acceptance speech…
Tagged with: English, Film, German, Ida, Oscars, Paweł Pawlikowski, Polish, subtitling, Translation
Posted in film, international, language, translation
Posted in film, international, language, 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
Polish children’s books take on the world: find today’s lokomotywa
We always need more children’s books to delight the eye and the ear, in as many languages as possible. The Polish Dwie Siostry (two sisters) Publishing is awarding 2,500 euro to the best new one to add to their catalogue:…
Tagged with: Children's Books, Dwie Siostry Publishing, Illustration, Julian Tuwim, Lokomotywa, Michael Dembinski, Polish, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Dead poets translation society: “I was not there I don’t know”
How do you translate a dead poet? The November issue of Poetry magazine is dedicated to translation, with translator’s notes on each poem. I made a beeline for languages I know – and found they shared a problem. The poet…
Tagged with: Dafydd ap Gwilym, Dafydd Johnston, Gwyneth Lewis, Jennifer Grotz, Jerzy Ficowski, Piotr Sommer, Poetry, Polish, Translation, Welsh
Posted in history, poetry, translation
Posted in history, poetry, translation
25 years – that’s a quarter of a century…
In just a few weeks time, it will be 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That’s a quarter of a century… makes a girl think. If you, too, wear glasses from reading too much small print, you will…
Tagged with: 1989, Art Spiegelman, Arundhati Roy, Atonement, Central Europe, Christina Viragh, Czesław Miłosz, German, God of Small Things, Hungarian, IanMcEwan, Kertész Imre, Literature, Maus, Nobel Prize, Poetry, Polish, quarter of a century, Tim Wilkinson, Wisława Szymborska, World Literature Today
Posted in history, international, literature, poetry, translation
Posted in history, international, literature, poetry, 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
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