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Translating Natalia Ginzburg: Minna Zallman Proctor in conversation with Ismail Muhammad
June 20, 2019 | 7:30pm

The Laundry SF | 3359 26th Street | San Francisco, CA

Minna Proctor, author of Landslide and editor of The Literary Review, discusses her translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such with writer and critic Ismail Muhammad.

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Poetry Inside Out is a collaborative language arts curriculum that celebrates classroom diversity, builds literacy skills, improves critical thinking, and unlocks creativity by teaching students to translate great poetry from around the world. By practicing the art of translation, students become familiar with the building blocks of language and the full range of expression available to them as readers, writers, speakers, thinkers, and world citizens.

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Featured Translator
Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker is the author of thirteen books of poems, including A Stranger’s Mirror (Norton, 2015)  Names (Norton, 2010) ,and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003) ,an essay collection, Unauthorized Voices ( Michigan, 2010), and fourteen collections of translations of French and Francophone poets including  Emmanuel Moses, Marie Etienne, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Habib Tengour and Rachida Madani. DiaspoRenga,   a collaborative sequence written with  Deema Shehabi, was published in 2014. Her awards include the Lenore Marshall Prize in 1995 for Winter Numbers , two Lambda Literary Awards, the 2009 American PEN award for poetry in translation, the 2010 PEN Voelcker Award and the international Argana Prize for Poetry from the Beit as-Sh’ir/ House of Poetry in Morocco in 2011. She lives in Paris.
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One of them was called Mandelbaum (almond tree) and the other Birnbaum (pear tree). Somewhere in the smoke-filled room there was also a Kirschbaum (cherry tree) and an Apfelbaum (apple tree). A veritable orchard in the fumes of alcohol, the reek of beer and belching!

Excerpt from “One of them was called Mandelbaum” from Polonaise by Emmanuel Moses
Translated by Marilyn Hacker