Sebald Lecture 2013
Boris Akunin - Paradise Lost: Confessions of an Apostate Translator
Boris Akunin gave the 2013 Sebald Lecture at Kings Place, London on 4 February 2013.
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Boris Akunin is one of the most widely read authors in Russia, and has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle. His best-selling detective novels are translated into English by Andrew Bromfield. But in his previous life, Boris Akunin was Grigory Chkhartishvili, a translator of Japanese literature into Russian.
In his lecture, he talked about his love for translating, how translating both helped and hindered his work as a writer, and why he misses it now.
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The evening also included include readings and presentations of the annual Translation Prizes administered by the Society of Authors.
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