While at the sea, I read a number of books. Two that made an odd pairing were Hanna Mina’s Fragments of Memory (trans. Lorne Kenny and Olive Kenny) and Jose Saramago’s Small Memories (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa).
This Wednesday (while I was still at the sea), PEN announced the winners of their 2011 literary awards. There were two very worthy winners in the two translation categories. One was for a work of poetry, and the other for prose, although both could be classed as Arabic poetry.
Multi–award-winning Susan Bernofsky, widely considered to be one of the best English translators of German literature today, has translated works by Robert Walser, Hermann Hesse, and Yoko Tawada. Among other […]
Elliott Colla is the translator of Ibrahim Aslan’s beautiful novel The Heron, Ibrahim al-Koni’s Gold Dust, and he occasionally translates work not written by non-Ibrahim authors. He has been a […]
My review of So You May See will be coming out this week in Al Masry Al Youm. Meanwhile, a Q&A with the book’s very patient and tolerant translator, Raphael Cohen.
Two translators of works I’ve personally enjoyed: Arunava Sinha (Bengali-English) and Allison Anderson (French-English).
Last month, André Naffis-Sahely sat down with veteran translator Humphrey Davies. The conversation occurred during Davies’ recent trip to London, shortly after Maclehose Press released his translation of Elias Khoury’s As Though She Were Sleeping.
Readers flocked to the first “rules for translation,” from Humphrey Davies and Jonathan Wright.
Today, Michael Cooperson (translator of Shalaby’s The Time Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets) talks literary time travel, long nights of smoking and drinking, and how he’d read TTTOTMWSPAS post-Jan25.
