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Poetry Translation Workshop with Sidney Wade
Translating Poetry: A Primer
Saturday May 17th, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Mechanics' Institute Library Meeting Room, 4th floor,
57 Post Street (near Market Street)
San Francisco
This is a hands-on workshop in the art of literary translation, designed both for those who are new to the field and for those more experienced with the undertaking. There will be an introduction to the most basic elements of the craft and some of the more exasperating issues. Procedures, questions, and conflicts will all be discussed. This workshop will entertain the following sorts of questions: Who is best qualified to translate poetry? How does one start? Why choose one language over another? What is a literal trot? How does a literal trot get translated into a fine poem in English?
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Sidney Wade is the guest poetry editor of Strange Harbors: TWO LINES World Writing in Translation. She is currently a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she teaches poetry and translation workshops. She translates Turkish poetry and wrote Istanbul'dan/From Istanbul, which was published in Turkish and in English by Yapi kredi Yayinlari, Istanbul. She is a recent president of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and the author of four other collections of poetry: Stroke, Celestial Bodies, Empty Sleeves, and Green.
Co-sponsored by the Northern California Translators Association.
ATA Continuing Education Credit: ATA-certified attendees will earn three Continuing Education points.
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Click on the link below to register:
http://www.ncta.org/displayconvention.cfm?conventionnbr=5105
By phone: (510) 845-8712
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African Literature in African Languages:
Kenyan Author Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Tuesday, February 12, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
111 Minna Gallery, 2nd St. and Minna St.
San Francisco
One of the most widely read African novelists of our time, Ngugi wa Thiong’o's latest novel The Wizard of the Crow was released in English translation last year to wide acclaim. Its epic scope and quality have drawn comparisons with the work of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. Since being imprisoned in Kenya during the 1970's for his writing, Ngugi has written exclusively in his native Gikuyu language and has argued passionately for authentic African cultural traditions.
Click to hear the interview with Ngugi broadcast on KALW 91.7 FM, Friday, February 8.
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Cervantes to Márquez: Edith Grossman on Translating Spanish-Language Masterpieces
Tuesday, March 11, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
111 Minna Gallery, 2nd St. and Minna St.
San Francisco
Grossman is today's foremost translator of Spanish-language literature. Her translation of Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera was the basis for a recently released motion picture and was also a pick of the Oprah Book Club. She has brought some of the most significant contemporary Latin American writing to English-speaking audiences including work by Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero, and Ariel Dorfman. She also published a highly praised new translation of Don Quixote.
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Legendary Poet as Translator: W.S. Merwin
Tuesday, April 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
111 Minna Gallery, 2nd St. and Minna St.
San Francisco
One of the most influential poets of the late-twentieth century, W.S. Merwin has won innumerable honors including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Well-known for his poetry since the 1960's, he is also one of America's most recognizable translators, working with Spanish, Latin, and French poetry. An environmental activist in Hawaii, where he lives, his recent work has been influenced by themes of environmental preservation and deep ecology.
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Turkish Writing Today: Sidney Wade and Erdağ Göknar
Tuesday, May 13, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
111 Minna Gallery, 2nd St. and Minna St.
San Francisco
Turkey plays a crucial role in our understanding of the cultural and political dynamics of contemporary Europe. This reading with two leading translators of contemporary Turkish focuses on the work coming out of the region during the last century. Göknar's translation of nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red catapulted Pamuk into the international spotlight. He has recently completed a translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's modernist novel A Mind at Peace, forthcoming from Archipelago Books. Wade is the author of five volumes of poetry including Istanbul’dan/From Istanbul. She is a recent president of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs and is a professor at the University of Florida where she teaches poetry and translation.
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From the Page to the Stage: John Biguenet on Translation and the Theater
Tuesday, June 10, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
111 Minna Gallery, 2nd St. and Minna St.
San Francisco
Biguenet is the author of The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories and the novel Oyster. His play Rising Water won the National New Plays Network Commission Award for 2006, the Big Easy Award for Best Original Play in 2008, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. An O. Henry award winner and New York Times guest columnist, Biguenet was twice elected president of the American Literary Translators Association and has published two volumes on literary translation. Biguenet will speak about a range of topics including translating international theater and his play Rising Water which takes place on a rooftop in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Actors will also perform a scene from the play, which is now opening around the country.
Co-sponsored by Magic Theatre.
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