Showing posts with label literary translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literary translation. Show all posts

Monday, 16 April 2018

Two upcoming events: research seminar and film screening

I am very happy to announce two imminent events:


The first is a research seminar tomorrow, which looks fascinating and is free and open to all:



When Translation Multiples Tell Their Own Story

Dr Kasia Szymanska, Oxford University
Tuesday 17 April
16:00 - 17:30 | LR2, 43 Woodland Rd, University of Bristol

Kasia Szymanska is a Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Oxford University, where she is a member of the committee of the Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre.  Her research lies in literary translation thought, experimental translations, and multilingual poetics - especially with reference to the East European context.  She was awarded the 2015 EST Translation Prize and is currently serving as one of the judges of the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

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The second event is an ultra-rare 35mm film screening on Sunday 22 April


Treasures from the Turin Film Museum



The silent period was a golden era for Italian cinema, with pioneer directors like Giovanni Pastrone, whose 1914 epic Cabiria influenced filmmakers such as D.W. Griffith. Historical epics were particularly popular. This event features five restored films from the collections of the Turin Film Museum, all with a classical theme. They include Pastrone’s Fall of Troy (1911) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1910), from the novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which was the first Italian historical epic. The programme also includes Hero and Leander and Dido Abandoned from 1910; and Judas from 1911.

Followed by a Q&A featuring Stella Dagna from the Turin Film Museum, Professor Maria Wyke from UCL, Dr Pantelis Michelakis from the University of Bristol, and our distinguished accompanist Mr Stephen Horne.

The event is generously supported by a grant from the Institute for Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol. Organised in partnership with South West Silents.

Tickets are available here at the Watershed website (booking recommended): https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/8824/treasures-from-the-turin-film-museum





Friday, 15 December 2017

Christophe Fricker's translation shortlisted for book award: voting open

Happy news! My colleague Dr Christophe Fricker's translation into German of Hugh Aldersey-Williams’s Tide (in German Flut) has been shortlisted for the Austrian 'Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres' or science book of the year award:


Many congratulations to both Christophe and Mr Aldersey-Williams!

The winning books are selected via an open vote, and German speakers please note, anyone can vote at http://www.wissenschaftsbuch.at/ (page is in German). :)

Monday, 27 November 2017

Alex Zucker visits the University of Bristol

We are delighted to welcome the distinguished translator Alex Zucker to Bristol. The event is free and all are welcome.
Hand Over Fist or Hand to Mouth? Translating Fiction in the U.S. 
Thursday December 7th
5:15pm, 
G108, 21 Woodland Road. Entrance at 3-5 Woodland Road.
More literature is being translated into English than ever before. International fiction seems to be enjoying if not a golden age, then at least a moment. Is this a boon for the translating profession? The School of Modern Languages is delighted to welcome the leading American translator of Czech fiction, Alex Zucker, from New York City to share his experience and offer a sneak peek at results from the first-ever survey of working conditions for literary translators in the U.S.A. 
Alex's latest work is Three Plastic Rooms, the remarkable and linguistically bewildering monologue of an ageing Prague prostituteby the leading contemporary Czech novelist, Petra Hůlová, to be published by Jantar in November 2017. You can find out more about Alex and his work at http://www.alexjzucker.com/

























Enquiries to Rajendra Chitnis (contact details are here). 

Monday, 20 March 2017

Peter Bush seminar added to spring lineup of Bristol translation events :)

It's turned into a bit of an exciting spring for translation events at Bristol. Not only do we have Don Share's visit at the end of the month, and two talks on language jobs in the UN and translation in UK-China trade, but I have just been notified about a seminar on Catalan literary translation taking place this Wednesday 22 March, featuring one of the UK's most respected and widely-published literary translators, Peter Bush:

"La traducció literària del català a l'anglès: Pa negre i alters obres" / 
"Catalan translation from Catalan into English: Black bread and other books". 

Peter Bush (Catalan-English translator): 
Wednesday 22nd March, 14.10-15.40, 12 Woodland Rd, 1G5.

I think you need a current University card to access this venue. Please address any queries to the organiser at marc.comadran at bristol.ac.uk.  


Peter Bush is a freelance literary translator and scholar who lives in Oxford. He has translated fifteen works from Catalan by authors such as Empar Moliner, Najat El Hachmi, Quim Monzó, Josep Pla, Mercè Rodoreda, Joan Sales, Teresa Solana and Emili Teixidor. His translation of Pla´s The Gray Notebook won the 2014 Ramon Llull Literary Translation Prize and he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2015 for his translation and promotion of Catalan literature. He has also won awards for his translations from Portuguese and Spanish. He has translated work by Carmen Boullosa,  Juan Goytisolo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Leonardo Padura and Senel Paz and a number of classics including Celestina and Tyrant Banderas. His most recent translation from French is In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou.
For more information on Peter Bush see his Wikipedia page. Readers who have taken my classes in the past may be familiar with some of Peter's writings on translation including this excellent essay looking at different drafts of one of his Goytisolo translations (may download directly as a pdf). 

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Sebald Lecture, 20 Feb 2017: Michael Longley on translating Latin & Greek poetry

The British Centre for Literary Translation
In association with the British Library

The Sebald Lecture 2017

Releasing the Lyric: Translating Latin and Greek Poetry
Michael Longley CBE

Monday 20 February 2017
7pm, The British Library Conference Centre
London NW1 2DB

Tickets £12 (£10 over 60s, £8 con)
On sale from the British Library Box Office
www.bl.uk/events

Since studying Classics at Trinity College Dublin, Irish poet Michael Longley has frequently drawn on classical models in his poetry and established allusive parallels between ancient and modern concerns. Over the course of his career he has also translated a wide variety of fellow poets, from classical authors to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, prompting Justin Quinn to write that ‘for Longley, translation becomes a way of thinking about the world’. In this lecture he will be reading, and commenting on, his translations from Latin and Greek. He will begin with his youthful versions from Sextus Propertius and progress to later poems derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, taking in Sappho and Tibullus on the way.

One of Britain’s finest poets, Michael Longley has received many awards for his lyrical poems about love, death, memory, history and nature, published over more than fifty years. His collection Gorse Fires (1991) won the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and The Weather in Japan (2000) won the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry, the Hawthornden Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His most recent book The Stairwell won the 2015 Griffin International Prize. His next collection Angel Hill will be published in June 2017. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2001, and was appointed a CBE in 2003. He was Professor of Poetry for Ireland from 2007 to 2010.

The Sebald Lecture is given annually on an aspect of literature in translation and is named after W.G. Sebald who set up BCLT in 1989. ‘Max’ was a German writer who opted to live in the UK and continue writing in German. His novels and essays include The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz and On the Natural History of Destruction, and they established him as a leading writer of the 20th century.





Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Bursary Opportunity in Ireland for Brazilian Literary Translators in 2017

This looks like a wonderful opportunity for qualified candidates:

Bursary Opportunity in Ireland for Brazilian Literary Translators in 2017


Literature Ireland, in co-operation with the Trinity Centre for Literary Translation, Trinity College Dublin, wishes to invite applications from literary translators for a residential bursary in Dublin in the period January to May 2017.

The bursary will be awarded to a practising literary translator of established track record who is working on a translation into Brazilian Portuguese of a work of contemporary Irish literature.

Travel and living expenses will be covered by Literature Ireland, while accommodation and work space will be provided by the Trinity Centre for Literary Translation, Trinity College Dublin. The successful applicant will be asked to work closely with students on the M. Phil. in Literary Translation (1–2 contact hours a week) and to organise three public workshops/talks on contemporary Latin American literature.

The bursary will be of four months’ duration. All applicants for this bursary must provide proof that they hold a publishing contract for the work in question. Applications should include an outline project proposal, current curriculum vitae and two references (including one from a publishing house). Where possible, a sample of the translation-in-progress (approximately 1,000 words of the original) should also be submitted in support of the application.

Completed applications should be submitted by email in English to info@literatureireland.com no later than Friday, 14 October 2016. The successful candidate will be notified by Friday, 21 October 2016. For further information, contact Rita McCann, info at literatureireland.com, or Dr Sarah Smyth, ssmyth at tcd.ie.






Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Two Irish events for International Translation Day, Cork and Dublin, 2016

A flurry of posts, as St. Jerome's day heaves into view.
This next event looks fantastic; I wish I could go! What a dream line-up of speakers including Professors Luis Perez Gonzalez, Michael Cronin, Hilary Footitt, Lawrence Venuti and other very distinguished scholars...

There is more information at https://www.ucc.ie/en/french/translationactivism/#d.en.685554.

The event is organized by Dr Caroline Williamson of University College Cork whose article "Post-traumatic growth at the international level: The obstructive role played by translators and editors of Rwandan Genocide testimonies" was published in issue 9(1) of the journal Translation Studies.

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As it happens the reason I can't go is a happy one; I will be taking part in another event on Tuesday 27 September for International Translation Day, at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The programme is as follows:

10:45—12:30
Translation Seminar with Professor Reine Meylaerts, KU Leuven

Translation and Citizenship: 'La loi doit être connue pour être obligatoire'


Since the European democratization processes of the long nineteenth century, the very core of the legal and political potential to act as a citizen was formed by communicative resources. Communication between authorities and citizens through one (or more) national language(s) thus became of utmost importance. That is why studying language and translation policies is crucial to understand the role of language and translation in the construction of democratic citizenship. Drawing on examples from nineteenth-century Belgium, this presentation will reflect on issues of translation and citizenship and on methodological and theoretical implications for Translation Studies.

14:00—16:00, choose one of the following round tables:


1) The Work of the Professional Translator


This roundtable will discuss topics such as training, freelance v staff translator, the translation market, specialising and technology. Chair: Annette Schiller (ITIA)


2) Translation History: Why Bother?


This roundtable will discuss the function and utility of translation history, approaches to translation history, futures of translation history, interdisciplinarity and impact. Chair: Carol O'Sullivan (University of Bristol) and Alice Colombo (NUI Galway)


3) Why Translation Matters


This roundtable will look at the function and place of translation in society, its role in intercultural dialogue, its challenges and its future. Chairs: David Johnston and Piotr Blumczynski (Queen's University Belfast)

The afternoon's roundtables will be followed at 17:00 by 'Translating Anne Enright' - an event with Anne Enright in conversation with four translators of her work; Sergio Claudio Perroni (Italy), Hans-Christian Oeser (Germany), Isabelle Reinharez (France) and María Porras Sánchez (Spain). 


Click here to book tickets for the 'Translating Anne Enright' event at 17:00 on 27 September 2016.


More information on both events and booking links at https://www.ria.ie/events/translation-seminar-and-roundtables.


Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Loose Canons: Translating Russian Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Exeter, 25 May 2016

There's a very interesting-looking event on Russian literature in translation taking place at Exeter next week - wish I could go!


Image from this page with thanks.


Loose Canons: Translating Russian Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Reed Hall, University of Exeter
25 May 2016, 9am-5pm

This one-day workshop will interrogate the process of creating (and recreating) the canon of Russian literature in translation. 

  • How do ideology and politics influence Western publishers’ choice of Russian authors for translation? 
  • How does a Russian author gain canonical status in the West, and does this necessarily match his or her standing in Russia? 
  • How do translators affect the process of author selection? Has the accepted canon of ‘classical’ Russian literature been significantly altered by recent translations? 
  • Who are the audiences for Russian literature in translation? 

We have invited translators, critics, and publishers as well as academics from Russian and translation studies to discuss these important questions. The workshop will run from 9am to 5pm, including a  discussion paper from translator Anna Gunin, who has recently rendered Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer for Penguin, and featuring contributions from celebrated translator Robert Chandler, academic Rebecca Gould (Bristol), publisher Alessandro Gallenzi (Alma Books), translator and scholar Roger Cockrell (Exeter), and translator and editor Oliver Ready (Oxford), among other colleagues and postgraduate students from the universities of Exeter and Bristol.

All are welcome to attend; please forward this information to colleagues or students interested in translation and/or Russian studies. For an event programme, contact Dr Muireann Maguire (muireann.maguire at exeter.ac.uk)

Thursday, 21 April 2016

German translation event, Bristol: Night Without Mercy, Friday 6 May

This event organised by the Bristol German department looks excellent:


Bristol's department of German is pleased to invite you to a bi-lingual reading of selected works by the renowned author Matthias Politycki and his translators: our colleagues Professor Robert Vilain and Dr Christophe Fricker, and Bristol students of German. Together, they will present sonnets and other poetry in German and English. The reading will be followed by a conversation with the author and his translators, and a wine reception.

Staff, students, and members of the public from Bristol and beyond are all welcome to attend. Knowledge of German is not required.

More information on the event is available here: http://www.aufenthalte.info/politycki-translation/

Matthias’ website can be accessed here: http://matthias-politycki.de/politycki-englisch.php

Please do not hesitate to get in touch, should you have any queries. We are looking forward to seeing you on Friday 6 May 2016 at 6 pm in Lecture Theatre 1, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UU


Please note that this is not part of the Woodland Road Arts Complex, but is in the old Baptist College building at the top of University Road. Here's a map:



 

Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Upcoming translation lectures, Bristol

We've got several very interesting speakers on translation coming up at Bristol, details below. All welcome, no charge.



**Please note that for anyone who doesn't have the door code, the entrance to the Arts Complex is via 3-5 Woodland Road.**


'Prismatic Translation'

Professor Matthew Reynolds
St. Anne's College, Oxford

Tuesday 1 March 2016, 5.15pm
LR1 (Lecture Room 1)
Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road


What happens when you see translation as prismatic – i.e. when you stop looking for the best version in the given circumstances, and instead revel in translation’s power to produce multiple variants? This talk will look at various manifestations of prismatic translation: through history, across languages, in dialogue, and as a creative practice (most of the examples will be literary and in English, or rather Englishes). It will ask how far our thinking about translations, and our ways of reading them, might need to shift if we adopt a prismatic view.

Matthew Reynolds teaches at Oxford where he chairs the interdisciplinary research programme Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT). Recent publications include The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue (2011), Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation (2013) and the novel The World Was All Before Them (2013). He has just finished writing Translation: A Very Short Introduction for OUP.

For further information, please contact Rebecca Gould (r.gould at bristol.ac.uk)



'French Atlantic Cities in Translation'

Professor Bill Marshall
University of Stirling

Tuesday 8 March 2016, 5.15pm,
LT3 (Lecture Theatre 3)
Arts Complex, 17 Woodland Rd (entrance via 3-5 Woodland Road if you don't have the door code)

This lecture takes off from Professor Marshall’s earlier work on the French Atlantic and combines this with insights by Montreal scholar Sherry Simon on 'cities in translation'. Taking the cases of nineteenth-century New Orleans and Montevideo, it will track the specific workings of translation that shed light on both the particularity of those sites and also on those aspects of transoceanic exchange and transformation which, in these urban contexts, invent new forms and question old orthodoxies. The lecture will include discussion of Sidonie de la Houssaye, Victor Séjour, Lautréamont, Julia Kristeva and Jacques Rancière.

All welcome.

For further information, please contact Martin Hurcombe (M.J.Hurcombe at bristol.ac.uk)

**Watch this space**:  more lectures coming up, inc.

**Now updated with latest event!**

'Presenting Mr Magarshack: The Story of a Russian Agent and his Classic Collection of Penguins'
 
Cathy McAteer

Thursday 17 March 2016, LR8, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TE (entrance via 3-5 Woodland Road except if you have the door code)

This paper will focus on Penguin's re-launch in the 1950s of classic Russian literature in English translation, with special attention given to David Magarshack, best known as Penguin's first translator of Dostoevskii, but also (unbeknownstto many) a journalist, novelist, translator, and translation theorist.

Enquiries to Ruth.Coates [at] bristol.ac.uk

Monday, 4 January 2016

'Translating Wordplay' conference, Lille, 23-24 March 2017

This looks like a really nice conference:

Call for papers:  International conference

Du jeu dans la langue. Traduire les jeux de mots / 
Loose in Translation: Translating Wordplay

23-24 March 2017
Université de Lille, France

https://www.univ-lille3.fr/recherche/actualites/agenda-de-la-recherche/?type=1&id=1271

The English version of the call is below. 

Selon la distinction établie par Bergson, le jeu de mots, en tant que comique créé par le langage, est réputé intraduisible, contrairement à celui qui est exprimé par le langage – une impossibilité qui résiste mal au fait que les traducteurs triomphent des jeux de mots au quotidien, car, composante universelle, l’humour peut toujours être traduit à l’aide d’équivalents. On pense immédiatement aux jeux sur et avec les mots (anagrammes, antanaclases, calembours, contrepèteries, paronomases…) ainsi qu’aux jeux sur le langage (création linguistique à visée humoristique : mots-valises, détournement parodique) sans oublier les jeux de mots involontaires créés par les accidents de langue.
S’il peut être tentant, et même utile, de dresser une telle typologie des jeux de mots, l’humour se moque bien des conventions, règles (qu’elles soient morales ou de grammaire), et sollicite la créativité du traducteur. Face à la polysémie du jeu de mots, le traducteur connaît parfois le rare bonheur de rencontrer une symétrie entre les langues mais, le plus souvent, l’un des sèmes originaux doit être abandonné, et lorsqu’il n’y a plus de lien polysémique, l’on est davantage dans la recréation que dans la traduction. 
Mais traduction du jeu ne saurait rimer avec liberté inconditionnée et inconditionnelle. En effet, c’est l’existence de limites qui permet la définition d’un espace de jeu et par là-même, l’activité ludique. Loin de restreindre le jeu, les règles servent de tremplin à la création au sein des limites dessinées. La traduction des jeux de langue interroge la traduction dans son ensemble tant elle signale l’existence d’un jeu dans la langue : la langue a du jeu car elle manque de stabilité et il faut donc laisser du jeu dans la mécanique du texte traduit.
Ce colloque aimerait aussi susciter une prise en compte de la dimension culturelle de l’humour et du jeu de mots. En effet, l’humour va s’imposer de façon différente selon les situations en fonction des cultures. Dès lors, le défi est double, il faut négocier le jeu de mots dans sa technicité mais également dans un contexte global.

Ce colloque interdisciplinaire invite des communications sur le jeu de mots dans toutes les langues, depuis ou vers le français et l’anglais, dans les domaines littéraire ou pragmatique : discours politique, publicitaire, audio-visuel tenant compte des supports choisis, des publics visés et des contraintes éditoriales. Les langues du colloque seront l’anglais et le français. Les frais d’inscription, comprenant pauses et repas, sont de 100 euros (50 euros pour les doctorants). Votre proposition de communication de 300 mots maximum, accompagnée d’une courte biographie, est à envoyer à traduirejdm at univ-lille3.fr jusqu’au 15 février 2016. 

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International conference
Loose in Translation: Translating Wordplay.
23-24 March 2017
University of Lille, France

According to Bergson’s definition, wordplay (the comic created by language) is untranslatable, as opposed to the comic expressed by language. This impossibility is nevertheless overcome one way or another as translators find solutions every day: humour, a universal component, can always be translated thanks to equivalence. What immediately comes to mind is play on and with words (anagrams, antanaclasis, puns, spoonerism, paronomasia…), as well as linguistic play (linguistic creations meant to be humorous: portmanteau words, parody) and linguistic accidents resulting in involuntary wordplay.

If establishing such a typology of wordplay can be tempting, and even useful, humour does not respect convention or rules (be they moral or grammatical), and it calls upon the translator’s creativity. When dealing with the polysemy of wordplay, translators sometimes find a favourable symmetrical solution between languages, but more often than not, one of the original semes must be dropped – when a polysemic link no longer exists, translation becomes more a matter of recreation.

However, translating wordplay does not mean unconditional and unrestricted freedom. Limits define the playground of translation and, therefore, make playing actually possible. Far from restraining play, rules foster creativity within these fixed delimitations. Translating play-on-words questions the translation process in general as it shows there is a lot of give and take in language itself: language has a lot of play because it is inherently unstable, and it is thus necessary to keep some leeway within the mechanics of the translated text.

This conference encourages participants to take into account the cultural dimension of humour and wordplay. Humour will occur differently  depending on context and culture. Translators therefore face a twofold challenge, as they need to negotiate the technical nature of wordplay without losing sight of a global framework.

For this interdisciplinary conference, we invite papers on translating wordplay in all languages, from or into French and English, in the literary and pragmatic fields: political, advertising, audiovisual discourses, taking into account the chosen corpus, the targeted audiences and editorial constraints. The conference languages will be English and French. The inscription fee, which includes breaks and lunches, is 100 euros per person (50 euros for PhD students).

Please send your proposal (300 words max) and short CV to traduirejdm at univ-lille3.fr by 15 February 2016.

For questions, please contact Julie Charles at julie.charles at univ-lille3.fr

Friday, 30 October 2015

Poems About Translation 24: The Translators, by George Szirtes

Recently arrived in my postbox, a very interesting-looking collection of essays on literary translation, including articles about the German audiobook of Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Duncan Large on philosopher-translators; Holocaust testimony in translation; on the Polish translation of Tutuola's Palm-Wine Drinkard; and many more.


I was very pleased to see a Poem About Translation (it's been a while), namely 'The Translators' by UEA's own George Szirtes, originally published in The Rialto in 2009. You can find the complete poem here on the Poetry Magazines site.

I'll leave Dr Szirtes to comment on the poem himself:



And while we're at it, here is a wonderful 2005 essay entitled 'Foreign Laughter' (from the Dublin Review, in honour of my quick trip to Dublin this weekend) by Szirtes on translating Hungarian literature.

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Translation workshops at U. of East Anglia, Norwich, autumn 2015

I've just seen the lineup of literary translation workshops taking place this autumn as part of the MA programmes in translation at UEA, and they look great. Lovely to see that first up is the wonderful Rosalind Harvey, Bristol denizen and literary translation cheerleader extraordinaire - an excellent speaker on this topic, and warmly recommended.

The blurb says:

Translation workshops take place as follows unless otherwise noted: on Wednesday's in C. Hall 0.13 and Thursdays in J.S.C. 1.02 between 5 and 7 pm. Workshops are organised jointly by the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and the School of Politics, Philosophy and Language. These workshops are free and open to the public.  

For more information please contact Cecilia Rossi (c.rossi at uea.ac.uk) or Roger Baines (R.W.Baines at uea.ac.uk).  

 
(Protip: My memory of UEA campus is that you need plenty of time to work out where you are going.)


Friday, 1 May 2015

Matthias Politycki in conversation, 19 May, University of Bristol


We are delighted to announce the visit of German novelist Matthias Politycki to the University of Bristol. On Tuesday 19 May, he will give a reading from his 2013 novel Samarkand Samarkand in an English translation by Anthea Bell. For a review of the novel from New Books in German, see:


The reading will take place on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, at 6pm in Lecture Theatre 1, University of Bristol, School of Arts, 43 Woodland Road. Please note this is *not* the Arts Complex, it's the building further towards town. No knowledge of German is necessary to enjoy this event. 

The reading will be followed by a conversation with the author about his travels in Central Asia that inspired the novel, and his experience of being translated. There will also be a wine reception. Entry is free, but spaces are limited, so it is recommended that you register in advance by emailing Dr Margit Dirscherl at margit.dirscherl at bristol.ac.uk.

Even fuller details are below:

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Literary translation summer schools, UK

There are two translation summer schools (to my knowledge) running in the UK this summer. Both of them have had excellent reports from my students in previous years.

The British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School in Norwich will offer workshops with Dutch, German, Italian, Korean and Norwegian this year, as well as English creative writing workshops, and prose and poetry translation workshops open to anyone translating into English. A feature of the Summer School is the opportunity to work with the author of the source text as well as with an experienced translator as workshop leader.

The Translate in the City summer school in London will run with the list of languages and tutors as below.






Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Upcoming translation events at Bristol

Only two sleeps until our translation study day for PhD and post-doctoral students on Friday, hurrah.

Will seize this opportunity to preview some of the other events coming up in the next few weeks at the University of Bristol:



Spring Events 2015

Friday 30 January                   Translation PhD and post-doctoral study day
                                                 Arts Complex G65, 2-5pm

Wednesday 11 February        Dr Valerie Pellatt, University of Newcastle
                                                 ‘Culture-specific items and untranslatability in                                                  Chinese-English translation’
                                                 Arts Complex G102, 2-4pm
                                            
Thursday 12 February            (ADDED) Russian Department Seminar 
                                                 Professor Anthony Briggs (Emeritus) on
                                                 translating War and Peace & Yevgeny Onegin.'
                                                     Arts Complex LR8, 5.15pm 
 
 Friday 20 February                Translation Studies Reading Group
                                                 Arts Complex room G33, 3-5pm

Tuesday 24 February             (ADDED) Nick Rosenthal MITI
                                                  Session 1: Building a career as a translator
                                                Session 2: Translating the Tour de France
                                                Arts Complex Lecture Theatre 2, 3-5pm

Tuesday 10 March                 Javier Gil
                                                Partner, eQuality Financial Translation Services 
                                                Financial translation workshop
                                                Arts Complex LT2, 3-5pm
**Please note due to unforeseen circumstances Javier's workshop has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule in future.**

Thursday 19 March               Russian Department literary translation evening
                                                Dr Muireann Maguire, translator, Red Spectres
                                                Anna Gunin, translator, The Sky Wept Fire
                                                Alessandro Gallenzi, publisher, Alma 
                                                Classics               
                                                Arts Complex LR8, 5.15-7pm

Friday 20 March                   (ADDED) Juliette Scott, translator and researcher
                                               Academic research, lawyers and legal translators: 
                                               Swimming in the same sea   
                                               Arts Complex LR1, 5-6pm

Tuesday 24 March                (ADDED) Jean-François Cornu 
                                               Research seminar: 
                                               'Principles for a history of film translation'
                                               Arts Complex LR8, 5.15-7pm

Wednesday 25 March          (ADDED) Jean-François Cornu
                                               Working in the film translation industry
                                               43 Woodland Road, LR2, 12 noon-1pm

All Arts Complex rooms can be accessed via nos.3-5 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8. Please note that 43 Woodland Road is not part of the Arts Complex.

For further information or details of reading group texts, please contact Dr Alice Colombo at alice.colombo at bristol.ac.uk.
For information on the Russian literary translation evening please contact Cathy McAteer at Cathy.McAteer at bristol.ac.uk .

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Translating cult TV and fiction into French

On the Arte site, this evening, this entertaining piece (in French) on the translation, dubbing and subtitling of cult media in France. Featuring, among others, Sylvestre Meininger and Anaïs Duchet of the Association des Traducteurs et Adaptateurs de l'Audiovisuel (ATAA):


For French speakers, the ATAA website is a fantastic source of information on the French audiovisual translation industry.

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Translation, Research and the Production of Knowledge

This looks like a really interesting event:

One-Day Conference: Translation, Research and the Production of Knowledge

Date: Friday 28 November 2014
Venue: Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, London

Organised by the Society for French Studies and the French Studies Library Group,
with the collaboration of the Institut français

This event will bring together translators, academics and librarians to discuss the ways in which translation constitutes a form of research and knowledge production in its own right. It will include discussion of translation as a form of practice as research, and provide reflections by researchers and translators on recent projects that exemplify such an approach. Colleagues from the British Library will explore the potential of translators’ papers as a research resource, and there will be a round table with colleagues from the wider fields of translation studies and Modern Languages. The event will conclude with a presentation by prize-winning translator and curator Sarah Ardizzone. This is the third in a series of translation-related events co-organized by SFS and FSLG, and follows previous symposia on ‘Constructing “21st-century Literature in French”‘ in December 2011 and ‘Translation and Reception: 21st-century French fiction in the UK’ in April 2013.

Advance booking is essential by 14 November 2014 as spaces will be limited.

Programme
10.00 – tea/coffee and registration
10.30 –panel 1:
Nick Harrison (KCL), Translation as research
Kate Briggs (American University in Paris), Translation as experiment
11.30 – panel 2:
Nina Parish (Bath) and Emma Wagstaff (Birmingham), Translating contemporary French poetry
Michael Syrotinski (Glasgow), Translating the Dictionary of Untranslatables
Tim Mathews (UCL), Translation and reading
1.00 – lunch
2.00 – Rachel Foss and Deborah Dawkin (British Library), Collecting Translators’ Archives at the British Library
3.00 – tea/coffee
3.30 – round table (with Kate Briggs (American University in Paris), Nick Harrison (KCL), Duncan Large (British Centre for Literary Translation, UEA) and Karen Leeder (University of Oxford))
4.30 – Sarah Ardizzone, The Spectacular Translation Machine & Other Adventures in Translation 
5.30 – event ends

Registration
Please register as soon as possible, and before Friday 14 November 2014, by completing the brief form below, and returning it with a cheque for the required to the following address:

Professor Charles Forsdick,
CLAS: French,
Cypress Building,
University of Liverpool,
Liverpool L69 7ZR

Please mark the envelope ‘Translation Event’.

Fee (including lunch and refreshments): £40 for the day (reduced rate of £20 for postgraduates and unwaged).

Cheques payable to The Society for French Studies. Please provide an email address as confirmation of registration will be provided by this means. Receipts will be available on the day.
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Please address any enquiries to Charles Forsdick (craf[at]liv.ac.uk)

Friday, 17 October 2014

Oldies but goodies

It's fifty-five years old, but I still really like this description of what good translation feels like:
If [the translator] does see and hear clearly and fully, he (sic) will hold the original poem in a sort of colloidal suspension in his mind – I mean a fluid state in which the syntax, all the rigid features of the original dissolve, and yet its movements and inner structures persist and operate. It is out of this that he must make another poem that will speak, or sing, with his own voice’
Jackson Mathews, 'Third Thoughts on Translating Poetry', in Reuben Brower (ed. ) On Translation, Harvard University Press, 1959, pp.66-77

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Poetry in Metamorphosis: A celebration of Italian poetry and translation

For italianisti, poetry lovers and anyone who enjoyed this post on Dante in Essex:


Poetry in Metamorphosis
A celebration of Italian poetry and translation
as part of the British Academy Guardian Language Festival and the Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo 2014

Tuesday 21 October 2014

at The British Academy, 10–11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
9.30 a.m.–5.45 p.m.

Speakers include: Jacob Blakesley (Leeds), Nadia Cannata and colleagues (Sapienza Università di Roma), Daniela Caselli (Manchester), F.M. Federici (UCL), Paul Howard (Cambridge), Daniela La Penna (Reading), Matthew Reynolds (Oxford), Claudia Rossignoli (St Andrews) and Nigel Vincent (Manchester)

at the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8NX
6.30 p.m.
Matthew Reynolds will introduce readings by Philip Terry (Essex) from Dante’s Inferno
Marina Warner will introduce Jamie McKendrick’s new translation of the poetry of Antonella Anedda

For further information and the programme, see: