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Featured Audio and Articles
TWO VOICES: Jay Rubin and J. Philip Gabriel on Translating MurakamiScott Esposito, April 5, 2012 12:41:00 PM
On April 3, 2012, translators Jay Rubin and J. Philip Gabriel—best-known as the main English translators of Haruki Murakmai's novels and short stories—discussed their work with the Japanese master of the surreal's latest book, 1Q84. The event got off to a proper start with a discussion of one of the primary questions surrounding 1Q84: how do you pronounce its title? Jay Rubin canvassed the audience for answers, which ranged from "nineteen-eighty-four" to "eye-que-eight-four" (which Rubin ruled out, since the first character is a number one). He then went on to a discussion of the role that the title plays in the novel . . .
Lit&Lunch with Novelist Jose Manuel Prieto in Conversation with Translator Esther AllenLit&Lunch audio, June 9, 2009 10:38:00 PM
Hear Cuban author Jose Manuel Prieto and translator Esther Allen speak about Rex, translation, Proust, and many other topics. Prieto and Allen appeared as part of the Center for the Art of Translation's Lit&Lunch series.
TWO VOICES: An Evening with Lydia Davis, April 25, 2011 02:53:00 PM
We're proud to present audio of renowned author, translator, and MacArthur "Genuis" Lydia Davis, who discussed her acclaimed new translation of Madame Bovary last week as part of the Center's Two Voices events series in San Francisco.
Whereas so many writers seem to fall neatly into categories, Davis's career has more often than not defied categorization . . .
Upcoming Events
Lit&Lunch: How to Translate Fairy Tales, with Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tatar
June 12, 2012
Contributors and the editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, an anthology of fairy tales, discuss the unique craft of translating myth and the history of fairy tales.
A Night of Fairy Tales
June 12, 2012
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join the staff and friends of the Center for the Art of Translation for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Audio Entries
Günter Grass Gets Into Politics
Posted on September 22, 2009 byAs a writer, Günter Grass has never been averse to political matters, and The Times (London) is now reporting that he's upping his involvement in politics as a citizen, campaigning for the Social Democrats:
Now, with the Social Democrats at risk of imploding in eastern Germany, Mr Grass is back on the road, taking his VW minibus emblazoned with Günter Grass ? en route from Germany to Germany across the country, filling theatres and concert halls. . . .
The main aim, says the novelist, essayist and poet, is to stop a lurch to the Centre Right on election day, September 27. Voter apathy is his main target.
Only the second English translation in the 50-year history of Grass's masterpiece, The Tin Drum—a very political work—will be publishing next month in the U.S. We're featuring an excerpt in Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed, and we'll also have the book's translator, Breon Mitchell, in San Francisco in November for two public events.