Lara Vergnaud contemplates the ifs and whens of preserving cultural markers with examples drawn from her recent translations of Joy Sorman, Yamen Manai, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.
A bowl is a bowl is a cup
Thoughts on the Translation of «Via Gemito» by Domenico Starnone
Oonagh Stransky pulls back the curtain on the determinative translational choices she made when bringing Domenico Starnone’s novel «Via Gemito» into English from the Italian.
On Translating Franca Mancinelli
John Taylor talks to a group of students about translating the work of Italian poet and essayist Franca Mancinelli, with whom he enjoys a fruitful collaborative relationship.
Between Poetry and Translation
Translations with no originals and originals from unwritten source texts: Guy Bennett reflects on the symbiosis of writing and translating in his more than thirty years of work.
From Untranslatable to Illegible
Laura León Llerena discusses literacy as a colonial tool, introducing us to the Huarochirí manuscript and her book «Reading the Illegible».
To Translate Is to Write
French novelist and former Oulipo president Paul Fournel reflects on translation, on being translated, on translating the Oulipo, and on writing as a form of translation.
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