It isn’t easy to explain a translator’s work to your nephews when they are just learning to read, but when I heard Saara Pääkkönen, who translates the Donald Duck comics into Finnish, explaining that she drops objects to hear what sound they…
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listen! – auf, wrzzz, shhhh…
Tagged with: Andrew Shields, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Finnish, German, Lyrikline, Maria Lyytinen, Poetry, Polish, Risto Oikarinen, Saara Pääkönen, Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Translation, Ulrike Draesner
Posted in poetry
Posted in poetry
Take the City Home
It’s autumn holiday week here – the sun is retreating, schools are on mid-term break, and summer is starting to seem like a distant memory. It’s time to escape the daily grind if at all possible. But what will you…
Tagged with: Austin Hyde, Camoes, Czesław Miłosz, David Brooks, history, Lisbon Poets, Louis Iribane, Martin D'Evelin, Polish, Portuguese, Translation, Warsaw
Posted in books, literature, poetry
Posted in books, literature, poetry
“It is time to speak out”: Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate 2015
Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature for her “Polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Born in Ukraine to a Ukrainian mother and a Belarusian father, she worked as…
Tagged with: Belarusian, Jerzy Czech, Julia R Robin Whitby, Literature, Nobel Prize, Polish, Russian, Ryszard Kapuściński, Svetlana Alexievich, Translation, Ukrainian
Posted in books, literature, translation
Posted in books, literature, 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
German Book Prize Shortlisters in Translation
The German Book Prize short list is out today! Three women, three Swiss writers and four with other books published in English in the last three years have made the cut. In my very subjective order of preference, they are:…
Tagged with: Eluned Gramich, Eugene Hayworth, Frank Witzel, German, German Book Prize, Inger-Maria Mahlke, Jenny Erpenbeck, Martin Chalmers, Monique Schwitter, Rolf Lappert, Susan Bernofsky, Swiss, Translation, Ulrich Peltzer
Posted in books, literature
Posted in books, literature
Now and at the Hour of our Death
This beautiful book is published by And Other Stories this week. It isn’t easy to write about the dying and their loved ones without falling into clichés and platitudes, especially in such a beautiful setting as rural northern Portugal: “Grass…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, books, Edinburgh Festival, Julia Sanches, Now and at the Hour of our Death, Portuguese, Susana Moreira Marques, Translation
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival
“born of love, not hatred”: Anne Carson’s Antigone
Yes, I did go to see Antigone at the Edinburgh Festival because Juliette Binoche was in the title role (I loved her work with Kieslowski, though unfortunately this time, images from Chocolat kept surfacing in my mind). And I made a discovery: Anne Carson’s new…
Tagged with: Anne Carson, Antigone, Antigonick, Bianca Stone, Bloodaxe, Edinburgh Festival, Greek, Oberon Classics, Sophokles, Translation
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival, Illustration, theatre
Posted in books, Edinburgh Festival, Illustration, theatre
Gendered gloss
At the end of women in translation month, where are all the women in the translator’s toolbox? Glossarissimo collates glossaries and resources on EVERYTHING from watermark terminology to a dictionary of Victorian slang. It really is useful and comprehensive. When you’re…
Tagged with: British Library, Glossarissimo, international, Terminology, Translation, Women in Translation Month, words
Posted in international, language
Posted in international, language
Women in Translation Month: Trafika Europe and Aurélia Lassaque
The Edinburgh festivals are full of wonderful translation events, but this one may have sold out faster than most. Trafika Europe is celebrating their first anniversary with two poets: a Saami man and an Occitan woman. Trafika is a gorgeous online…
Tagged with: Aurelia Lassaque, Edinburgh Festival, James Thomas, Occitan, Poetry, Trafika Europe, Translation
Posted in Edinburgh Festival, poetry, translation
Posted in Edinburgh Festival, poetry, translation
Women in Translation Month: Menna Elfyn
“Why write? It is so much easier to say when I started to write. I fell in love with words, and wordsmiths such as Dylan Thomas… in the ‘fifties, when I was growing up, the Welsh language was still seen…
Tagged with: Catrin Glyndwr, Gillian Clarke, Joseph P. Clancy, Menna Elfyn, Murmur, Poetry, Translation, Welsh, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, language, poetry
Posted in books, language, poetry
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