Carlos Llazza Corrales on Translating Burns into Spanish
21 May, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
Carlos Llazza Corrales, writer, translator, tutor at Glasgow University, talks about his translations of Burns, & discusses the role of literary translation in creating a Scoto-Hispanic literary space
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #translation #literarytranslation #Spanish
Novelist John Scalzi, on the translation of book titles and why they often change considerably from one language to another.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/03/how-translation-works-book-title-edition/
Now online: Issue 9 of Ardea, the multilingual short-form poetry journal. It contains the work of poets writing in the modern traditions of haiku, tanka and haibun.
https://www.ardea.org.uk
No paywall, open submissions, all volunteer
I have edited-consulted a few times on poetry into and out of South Slavic languages, and this time have a co-translation credit on a Croatian kasen renga. Enjoy!
#haiku #poetry #multilingual #bilingual #translation #LiteraryTranslation
@literarytranslation
"Being a translator is an invisible and underrated profession. [...]
It is this lack of awareness, the invisibility and lack of insight into our skills, that is making the machine takeover so easy. [...] But in my view there is no price that can be put on the damage that is being done by AI to text production."
Lisa Fransson, translator and author
Today at #ALTA47, it was a pleasure being on a panel about using CAT software in literary translation, along with three panelists who were fantastic at explaining this tech clearly: (L to R) Viktorija Bilić, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, & Lola Rogers.
I spoke about using CafeTran Espresso under Linux, how concordance searching is a big help for literary translators, and about using CAT tools to translate from right-to-left into left-to-right languages.
I'm getting ready to go to the American Literary Translators Association conference in Milwaukee. I'm looking forward to the "Cold Beers, Cold Readings" event, with performances of scenes from recently translated stage plays. (I'm bringing a scene from my English translation of "In It for the Dough.") I'll also be on a panel about using CAT software in literary translation.
#translation #translators #ALTA47 #TheaterTranslation #CATtools #LiteraryTranslation
Exciting news: #TastingSunlight by Ewald Arenz, in my translation, is a BBC World Service WORLD BOOK CLUB PICK for September! @orendabooks 😎🌞☀️🍐
Available to listen via
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
Emily Wilson, a legend in her own right, reviews the latest book of Anne Carson, who is by now, basically a mythical figure (at least for some of us).
#literarycriticism #LiteraryTranslation #Literature #bookstodon #poetry #greekliterature #classics
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/anne-carson-wrong-norma/
10 a.m., Friday morning. Doing the final revision of my translation of the crime novel “Second Identity” by Brazilian author Fernando Perdigão. Two indispensable companies: coffee and Kikita.
#literarytranslation
Book post from last week...
My translation of The Wrong Planet by Holger Nils Pohl, illustrated by Benjamin Dammeier. A book for children of all ages on the experience of autistic people. Everyone is different, this is the author's own & his family's experience of autism. Many thanks to Nick Rosenthal for sensitivity reading.
More details at https://clarity.holgernilspohl.com/pages/autism
#WorldKidLit #InMyTranslation #autism #theWrongPlanet #neurodiversity #LiteraryTranslation
This book 'Flights' is more difficult to get into than 'Drive your plow over the bones of the dead' both by Olga Tokarczuk (different #translators, both very good) but I'll give it a chance. Very interesting observations about travel that I get.
Hey booksellers, librarians, reviewers, etc: the Lantern and the Night Moths is on Edelweiss now if you would like to request a review copy! Please repost and help me spread the word. Thanks!
https://www.edelweiss.plus/?sku=1778430384&g=4400
#NameTheTranslator #literarytranslation #poetry #bookseller #bookreview #书 #翻译 #sinophone #AsianStudies #chinesepoetry #诗
#CfP for the #seminar "Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and #Translating Early Modern Women's Fiction", which will take place at the University of Huelva (Spain) on October 17-18, 2024.
🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2024
📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/imaginary-communities-reading-writing-and-translating-early-modern-womens-fiction-huelva-spain/ #LiteratureGender #LiteraryTranslation #Translation #LiteratureHistory @germanistik @litstudies @italianstudies
https://bulteno.esperanto-usa.org/a/2023/05/traduku/
Rezultoj de nia lasta tradukdefio en 2023: fragmento el "Kindred" de Octavia E. Butler.
#Esperanto #tradukado #translation #literarytranslation
The Author's Guild's 2022 survey of Literary Translators' Working Conditions just released its results, which make interesting reading.
Unfortunately, as with the Guild's 2017 survey, the discussion of average per-word rates ("$0.13 per word") is kind of meaningless since it is not broken down by language pairs or direction, and does not say whether the price is per source or target word.
https://authorsguild.org/news/new-survey-examines-state-of-literary-translators-working-conditions/
#translation #TranslatorsLife #LiteraryTranslation #literature
FB reminds me that one year ago this week, I was translating three lyrical religious poems for a client. By contrast, this week I'm translating puns and poop jokes. Variety is the spice of translation. 😇
After attending this week's summit about unleashing "the power of AI" in translations, I finally had a real-world use case: For a stage play I'm translating, I just instructed ChatGPT 4 to "Give me some potentially humorous-sounding synonyms for 'turd' in American English." I feel very high tech and oh so literary. 🧐
"Translators' Portraits."
Great videos of literary translators discussing the profession and their experiences in it. A total of 54 translators (in Greek, subtitled in English).
#translation #LiteraryTranslation #literature #TranslatorsLife
I'm on my way home from the American Literary Translators Association conference, an amazingly friendly gathering: 400 people who, rather than treat their colleagues as competitors, are supportive of each other and share their knowledge and experience. I recommend the event to fellow LT professionals! 😀
#translation #translators #TranslatorsLife #LiteraryTranslation #conferences #ALTA46
I'm in Arizona for #ALTA46: the American Literary Translators Association conference. It's just the first day but I've already met wonderfully smart, creative, thought-provoking, kind people... including these members of our 2nd-place-winning team for Translation Trivia Night. (A so-so photo but a great team!) I can't wait for tomorrow's sessions. 😃
