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Featured Audio and Articles
June 12: A Night of Fairy TalesScott Esposito, May 14, 2012 11:57:00 AM
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join us for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tartar take you deep into the dark woods with readings from classic and contemporary fairytales. And these aren't the fairytales you grew up with—they're the darkest, scariest tales you've ever heard! A reception with cash bar will follow the event.
If you can make it, definitely plan to drop by. This event is super affordable, and promises to be a memorable experience!
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.
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
Three Cuban Writers To Read In Translation
Posted on July 28, 2009 byJose Manuel Prieto has been busy lately. In addition to chatting about translation and overseeing the publication of his Russian Trilogy into English, he recently penned an introduction to Cuban writer Guillermo Rosales's intense novella, The Halfway House. Reviews of Halfway House are available at The Complete Review and Three Percent.
The Center's anthology, Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed, features another Cuban writer in addition to Prieto. His name is Rogelio Riveron, and in her translator's introduction Elizabeth Bell uses this short anecdote to describe him:
I write because it's practically the only thing I know how to do, says Rogelio Riveron.
When an interviewer pressed the issue with another Why do you write? query, Riveron said: If I were older I might answer that I do it as a service to culture. For now, I'd chop one syllable off that embarrassing word and say I do it as a vice, or my fate.
Asked another, What do you like to do besides write?
The reply: Write.
At 44, Riveron shows no signs of slowing down. He is the recipient of both the Italo Calvino Award (2008) and the Julio Cortazar Award (2007) for short stories. His contribution to Wherever shows signs of both authors, and though he has been little-translated into English, he is an author I hope we can see a full-length work from (in English) in the future.