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Sebald Lecture 2012
Making The Crossing: the Poet as Translator
given by Sean O'Brien
Monday 6 February at 7pm at Kings Place, London
Tickets are now on sale for the annual Sebald Lecture on literary translation, preceded by presentations and readings from the annual Translation Prizes
Sean O'Brien writes:
This lecture opens by describing early experience of reading poetry in translation and moves on to discuss the experience of working on translations from a variety of poets and dramatists, including Aristophanes, Baudelaire, Calderon, Corsino Fortes and Dante. It considers the challenges offered by different works, including the questions of form raised by epics such as the Inferno and the ornate work of the Golden Age dramatist Calderon. The lecture includes a working account of the author’s conviction that translations of poetry have to be judged as poems rather than intermediaries, and that for the non-specialist poet, translation, like the writing of original poems, is necessarily an impure and practical activity. There is also the odd joke.
International Fiction Book Group
Join our award winning International Fiction reading group, run by BCLT and the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library. The initiative aims to encourage more people to read foreign literature, and is the first book group of its kind in the UK.
The group meets on the second Wednesday of each month from 1.30pm to 2.30pm in the training room on the 2nd floor of the Millennium Library. The next meeting is on 8 February and will discuss Warnar, a play by P C Hooft and S Coster. It was translated by Christopher Joby who will join us for the discussion.
Further details from b.epstein@uea.ac.uk
BCLT at Jewish Book Week
A Masterclass with Peter Cole
Sunday 19 February at 2pm at Kings Place, London
Whether or not Robert Frost ever said it, just about everyone assumes that poetry is in fact what is lost in translation. MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole puts his head into the lion’s mouth of assumptions like this one, as he conducts a master class on literary translation and looks at what is actually going on behind the translation of certain poems.
Voices From Greece 2012
Thessaloniki 1912-2012 in History, Literature and Music
Saturday 24 March at 4pm
Lecture Theatre 1, University of East Anglia, Norwich
with Victoria Hislop (author of The Island), Professor David Connolly (Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki) and Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)
Followed by Music from Thessaloniki
Admission Free
Further information from h.anagnostopoulou@uea.ac.uk
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