Two Japanese Translators to Speak at the Bridge Series
The Bridge Series just turned one year old (happy birthday!), and by way of celebration, it will be presenting two outstanding translators from the Japanese this coming Monday: Ted… More
HotINK Festival
While many of the world’s greatest plays are only known to American audiences through translation (those by Sophocles, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Ionesco, to name but a very few),… More
Occupy Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center was on lockdown last night after the New York Police Department erected heavy metal barricades all around the Center, even blocking off its small side entrances. Lincoln… More
PEN Translation Committee Member Sylvie Kande at Columbia 11/14
Sylvie Kandé will read excerpts from her neo-epic poem, La quête infinie de l’autre rive: Épopée en trois chants (Gallimard, 2011), followed by a discussion on the theme of… More
For Occupy Berlin: A Song and a Prayer
This past week I visited Occupy Berlin, a movement inspired by Occupy Wall Street in New York (and also, of course, by the recent demonstrations in Spain and above… More
Occupied by Translation
This has been a heady few weeks of activity for the Translation Working Group down at Occupy Wall Street. In this time, the ranks of our volunteer translators have… More
David Bellos to Speak at McNally Jackson
David Bellos, the eminent translation scholar, brilliant translator of Georges Perec, and runner-up for this year’s PEN Translation Prize will be speaking this Thursday, October 13 at McNally Jackson… More
Translating a Local Revolution
So much of the political side of PEN’s work is concerned, quite appropriately, with struggles for freedom taking place around the globe; but this week I spent a good… More
Generation T
When I was coming up, there were fewer opportunities for young translators and sources of support than there are now. More
Fast Talkers
I remember the first time when, sitting on a bus in Münster, Germany as a 19-year-old exchange student, I found myself actually eavesdropping, picking up snatches of other people’s… More
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