"Translation permits us to savour the transformation of the foreign into the familiar and for a brief time to live outside our own skins, our own preconceptions and misconceptions."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/05/edith-grossman-acclaimed-translator-dies-at-87
#LiteraryTranslation #bookstodon @bookstodon #witingcommunity

"Translation permits us to savour the transformation of the foreign into the familiar and for a brief time to live outside our own skins, our own preconceptions and misconceptions."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/05/edith-grossman-acclaimed-translator-dies-at-87
#LiteraryTranslation #bookstodon @bookstodon #writingcommunity

Hopeful news about the growth of translated literature in the English-speaking world.
#LiteraryTranslation #books

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/29/its-exciting-its-powerful-how-translated-fiction-captured-a-new-generation-of-readers

Written #translation backed the wrong horse by having #LiteraryTranslation as its most prestigious form and the source of arguments for why #xl8 is important. By focusing on "translation as a meeting point of cultures", "translation as craft", and "translation as rewriting" instead of ", translation as economically valuable" and "translation as life saving", we have painted a picture of translation as aloof and distant from everyday life.

Join me for my webinar:

Hearing Voices: Allusions, Idioms & (Hidden) Quotations.

#literarytranslation #literarytranslation #webinar #continuedprofessionaldevelopment #CPD

Amazing opportunity for fledgling translators based in Japan!

Three-day literary translation workshop in Tokyo, March 21-23. This will be hosted by Sayaka Murata (Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings) and her translator Ginny Tapley Takemori.
You need to submit a CV and cover letter to apply, but if you are accepted then attendance is free (and they'll even help with transportation to and lodging in Tokyo) though you must be based in Japan.

https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/article/apply-now-japanese-english-literary-translation-workshop/

#translation #literaryTranslation #localization #JapaneseLiterature

Since I posted this on the bird app, I thought I should also put it up in this pachyderm place:

I got some pretty exciting news today! 💖💖

Check this out: https://mozhi.co.in/2022/12/08/announcement-the-mozhi-prize-shortlist/

#xl8 #literarytranslation #translation #award #literaryprize #Tamil #Bookstodon #Mastindia #fiction

#Poetry
To Loved Ones by Jayesh Jeevibahen Solanki

Translated from Gujarati by Gopika Jadeja | via Words Without Borders

“The bazaar reveals this to us:
I sell
Get sold
Someone buys me
and I buy someone else …”

#Translation #LiteraryTranslation #Culture #Literature #Poems #Poet #Reading #Read

https://dailyculturepicks.org/poetry-to-loved-ones-by-jayesh-jeevibahen-solanki/

@shreedaisy I will say I haven't found many Hindi/Urdu speakers here. Not sure why. The #translation hashtag has a fair number of hits as does #LiteraryTranslation. If you find people that look interesting, you can also see who they follow as well to find more like-minded folks.

#painting and #MastoArt also come to mind.

I've really enjoyed discovering great new reads via the online Portuguese in Translation Book Club (PinT) this year. There's still time to read Emilio Fraia's (very short 😉) Sevastopol, translated by Zoë Perry, before upcoming 5th session at 7 pm (GMT) on 30 November. The author and translator will be talking about the book and answering questions. You can watch clips from previous sessions at pintbookclub.com/programme
#Portuguese #Translation #Books #BookClub #LiteraryTranslation #PinT

@cybersprache I fit some of those categories, #modern #Chinese literature and #film, do #literarytranslation, interested in #nonfiction and #documentary, emotional aspects of socialist culture (that would never get anywhere as a hashtag!), #sciencefiction, literary and cinematic #gerontology. I'm an avid learner of #criticaltheory but not adept enough to tag myself as comp lit.

#poetry
On Mornings I Drink Corn Soup by Lee Jenny
Translated by Archana Madhavan | via Modern Poetry in Translation

“On mornings I drink corn soup I
need a table
so it may as well be a round and warm table and I
need a chair
so it may as well be a round and warm chair and I
need a bowl …”

#Reading #Translation #Literature #Culture #Writing #Readingcommunity #writingcommunity #literarytranslation
https://dailyculturepicks.org/poetry-on-mornings-i-drink-corn-soup-by-lee-jenny/