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Translator Episodes

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May 28, 2024

Translator Brian Robert Moore on the Italian Writer Michele Mari ( Italian)

​​The guest for this Episode is Brian Robert Moore. He spoke about his stint in Italy as a publisher and Editor and his Translation of the beautiful Short story collection 'You-Bleeding Childhood' written by the great Italian Author Michele Mari.

Brian Robert Moore is a literary translator originally from New York City. His published and forthcoming translations from Italian include Meeting in Positano by Goliarda Sapienza (Other Press), A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano (Pushkin Press), and You...
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May 25, 2024

Translating As a means of ‘Negotiating with Identity’ - Jessica Cohen ( Hebrew)

Jessica Cohen is an independent translator born in England, raised in Israel, and living in Denver. She translates contemporary Hebrew prose and other creative work. In 2017, she shared the Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman for her translation of A Horse Walks Into a Bar. She has also translated works by major Israeli writers including Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Ronit Matalon and Maya Arad, and by filmmakers Ari Folman and Nadav Lapid. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for...
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May 15, 2024

Life in Translation - Peter Bush (Catalan)

The guest for this Episode is Peter Bush. Born in Lincolnshire, UK, He has translated works from Catalan, French, Spanish and Portuguese to English. He spoke about his Translations in Catalan, Prominent authors in Catalan, Translation as an academic Discipline, and his Experience at the British Center for Literary Translation (BCLT).

Bush has been active not only as a translator but also in developing literary translation as an academic discipline by working in the academic world, serving in ke...
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May 10, 2024

Alex Zucker about Czech Writer Jachym Topol and Translation contracts (Czech)

In this episode, Senior translator Alex Zucker spoke about his work, Translation contracts and the Czech Author Jachym Topol.

Alex Zucker has translated novels by the Czech authors Magdaléna Platzová, Jáchym Topol, Bianca Bellová, Petra Hůlová, J. R. Pick, Tomáš Zmeškal, Josef Jedlička, Heda Margolius Kovály, Patrik Ouředník, and Miloslava Holubová. He has also Englished stories, plays, subtitles, young adult and children’s books, song lyrics, reportages, essays, poems, philosophy, art history,...
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May 6, 2024

Tiffany Tsao on her Writing and Translations (Indonesian)

The Guest for Today's Episode is Tiffany Tsao.

Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She is the author of the novel The Majesties and the Oddfits fantasy trilogy (so far, The Oddfits and The More Known World.)

She has translated five books from Indonesian into English. For her translation of Budi Darma’s People from Bloomington, she was awarded the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. Her translation of Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s 'Happy Stories, M...
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April 13, 2024

'హాటకం' - తమిళ రచయిత జయమోహన్ కథకు అవినేని భాస్కర్ అనువాదం.

'హాటకం' తమిళ రచయిత జయమోహన్ రాసిన కథ. తెలుగులోకి అవినేని భాస్కర్ అనువదించారు. క్రితం వారం 'ఉదయిని' వెబ్ మేగజైన్ లో ప్రచురింపబడింది.

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April 8, 2024

Sarah Timmer Harvey on 'What I Would Rather Not Think About' (Short listed for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Sarah Timmer Harvey spoke about translation of the novel, ' What I would Rather not think about' which is Short listed for International booker prize - 2024 in this episode.

Sarah Timmer Harvey is a translator and writer currently based in Woodstock, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York and a BA from Southern Cross University. Sarah’s translation of Jente Posthuma’s novel 'What I’d Rather Not Think About' was published by Scribe in 2023. Reconstruction, their translat...
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April 5, 2024

Kira Josefsson on 'The Details' (Long listed for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

This episode's guest is Kira Josefsson. She spoke about her translated work, 'The Details,' which is long-listed for the International Booker Prize 2024.

'The Details' was originally published in Swedish. Ia Genberg is the author.

Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and translator between Swedish and English. Her work has been Long-listed for the International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize. She lives in Queens, New York, and writes on US events and politics in the Swe...
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March 31, 2024

Boris Dralyuk on 'The Silver Bone' (Long listed for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Today We have Boris Dralyuk With us. He is speaking about his translation of 'The Silver Bone' Written in Russian by Andrey Kurkov. 'The Silver Bone' is Long-Listed for International Booker Prize - 2024.

Boris Dralyuk is a poet, translator, and critic. He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA and has taught at UCLA and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Tulsa.

He is the author of My Hollywood and Oth...
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March 29, 2024

John Hodgson on Ismail Kadare and 'A Dictator Calls' (Albanian Novel : Long listed for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Today, we have Distinguished Albanian translator John Hodgson with us. He is talking about his international Booker-longlisted rendition of 'A Dictator Calls' written by Albanian Writer Ismail Kadare. The author and translator were previously longlisted for the novel The Traitors Niche for the Man Booker International prize in 2017.

So far, John Hodgson has translated seven novels by Ismail Kadare.

John Hodgson’s origins are in Tyneside. He studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and ...
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March 26, 2024

Johnny Lorenz on 'Crooked Plow' (Longlisted for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Today, Johnny Lorenz will speak on his translation of 'Crooked Plow,' which is long-listed for the International Booker Prize-2024.

Johnny Lorenz, son of Brazilian immigrants to the United States, is a translator of Brazilian Literature, poet and literary critic. He holds a doctorate in English from the University of Texas at Austin and is a professor at Montclair State University. His translation of Clarice Lispector's A Breath of Life (New Directions) was a finalist for the Best Translated Bo...
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March 24, 2024

Noel Hernández González on 'Simpatia' (Longlisted for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Guest for Today's Episode is Noel Hernandez Gonzalez talking about hsi experience of Co-Translating 'Simpatia' a Spanish Novel, which has been longlisted for International Booker - 2024.

Noel Hernández González is originally from Tenerife and have lived in the UK for the last 19 years. He has a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the London School of Journalism and an MA in Literary Translat...
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March 22, 2024

Annie Mcdermott on 'Not a River' - (Longlisted for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Guest for this Episode is Annie Mcdermott.

Annie McDermott is the translator of a dozen books from Spanish and Portuguese, by such writers as Mario Levrero, Ariana Harwicz, Brenda Lozano, Fernanda Trías and Lídia Jorge. She was awarded the Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate, her translation of Brickmakers by Selva Almada was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and her translation of Not a River, also by Selva Almada, is curre...
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March 22, 2024

Leah Janeczko on 'Lost on Me' (Longlisted for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Guest for this episode is Leah Janeczko.

Originally from Chicago, Leah Janeczko has lived in Milan since 1991. For over 25 years she’s been an Italian-to-English translator of fiction for all ages. Her recent translations include Glowrushes by Roberto Piumini, who has been nominated three times for the Hans Christian Andersen Award; Her other notable translations are -The Women at Hitler’s Table by Rosella Postorino, winner of the 2018 Campiello Prize; and Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, which wa...
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March 22, 2024

Sora Kim Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae on "Mater 2-10"(Longlisted for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Sora Kim Russell and Youngjae translate from Korean to English. Their co-translation of Hwang Sok-yong’s Mater 2-10 has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker International Prize. In this episode, they spoke about the author and their experience of translating the book.

Sora Kim-Russell has translated works by Pyun Hye-young, Kim Un-su, Hwang Sok-yong, and Bae Suah, among others. Her translation of Pyun Hye-young’s The Hole won the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. Her translation of At D...
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March 22, 2024

Oonagh Stransky on Translating 'The House on Via Gemito'(Longlisted for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Guest for this Episode is Translator - Oonagh Stransky. She spoke about her translation of 'The House on Via Gemito' Which is long listed for International Booker - 2024.

Oonagh Stransky’s translations from the Italian include works by Montale, Dell’Oro, Pontiggia, Lucarelli, Spaziani, Saviano, and Pope Francis. Shorter translations have appeared in a number of literary reviews including The New England Review, Exchanges, the Massachusetts Review, the Southern Humanities Review, and The Literar...
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March 15, 2024

Kate Webster on her Translation of "White Nights" (Longlisted for the International Booker Prize - 2024)

Today we have with us - Kate Webster who is a translator based in London. She will be speaking about her Translation of "White Nights" written in Polish by Urszula Honek. 'White Nights' is long listed for International Booker Prize - 2024.
Webster has translated many short stories and essays for publication in anthologies and online media and, in September 2018, took part in the Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme organised by the National Centre for Writing, where she was mentored by Anton...
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March 15, 2024

Jacob Rogers about Translating from Galician Language (Galician)

Today we have Jacob Rogers with us . He is a translator from Galician and Spanish. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and co-edited features of Galician literature for Words Without Borders, Asymptote, and The Riveter. He has translated Manuel Rivas' The Last Days of Terranova for Archipelago Books, and Berta Dávila's The Dear Ones for 3TimesRebel.

He spoke about Experience of being a book seller and translator, Author Manuel Rivas, Tra...
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March 3, 2024

Sawad Hussain on Arabic Translations, Developmental editing & Mentoring (Arabic)

In this episode, Sawad Hussain spoke about bringing Arabic Literature into English, developmental editing, her passion for mentoring and her new book ‘Djinn’s Apple'.

Sawad Hussain is a translator from Arabic whose work in 2023 was shortlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and longlisted for The Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing.

She is a judge for the Palestine Book Awards and the Armory Square Prize for So...
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Feb. 26, 2024

Ros Schwartz on Translation

(00:00) Introduction to the Guest: Rose Schwartz

(01:33) Rose Schwartz's Early Love for French

(03:29) Living in France: Experiences and Learnings

(04:37) Entry into Translation

(06:48) Challenges and Triumphs of First Book Translation

(12:48) The Art of Translation: Balancing Meaning and Music

(15:54) Engaging with Authors: Building Trust and Understanding

(18:05) The Role of Editing in Translation

(23:03) Reading for Pleasure vs. Translation

(23:58) Evaluating Translation: A Complex P...
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Feb. 23, 2024

Kotryna Garanasvili about Lithuanian Literature in Translation (Lithuanian)

Today We have Kotryna Garanasvili speaking about Lithuanian Literature in translation, and her work in translations.

Kotryna Garanasvili is a writer, translator and interpreter working with English, Lithuanian, French, German, Russian, and Georgian. She is currently pursuing a PhD and teaching at the University of East Anglia and serves as a member of the BCLT Research Group. Her research, focusing dialect translation, is funded by CHASE Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is the winner o...
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Feb. 15, 2024

David Bellos on 'Is that a Fish in your ear' - his book about Translation.

In this podcast episode, Dr. David Bellos, a professor at Princeton, discusses his journey into translation and his book on translation ' Is that a Fish in your ear' . Dr. Bellos began translating in the 1980s and emphasises that translation has always been a balance between self-expression and scholarship. He also touches on the challenges of humor in translation and the complexity of dealing with a third language (L3) in texts. Dr. Bellos also discusses his course, 'Great Books from Little Lan...
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Feb. 13, 2024

అనువాదకులు లక్ష్మణ శాస్త్రి - ‘నా పేరు గౌహర్ జాన్’ నవల గురించి

గుంటూరు కుమార లక్ష్మణ శాస్త్రి గారు. ఎల్ ఐ సీ లో అధికారిగా పనిచేస్తున్నారు. హిందుస్తానీ సంగీతం మీద ప్రత్యేకమైన ఆసక్తి వుంది. పుస్తకపఠనం అనువాదం ఇతర అభిరుచులు కాకినాడ వాస్తవ్యులు. ఆంగ్ల రచయిత విక్రమ్ సంపత్ రచించిన‘ మై నేమ్ ఈస్ గౌహర్ జాన్’ ‘బ్రేవ్ హార్ట్స్ ఆఫ్ భారత్’ రెండిటినీ ఇంగ్లీష్ నించి తెలుగులోకి అనువదించి గోదావరి ప్రచురణల ద్వారా అందుబాటులోకి తీసుకొస్తున్నారు. 16 వ తారీఖు హైదరాబాద్ బుక్ ఫెయిర్ లో విక్రమ్ సంపత్ సమక్షంలో ఈ పుస్తకావిష్కరణ జరుగుతుంది. .

లక్ష్మణ శాస్త్రి గారు అనువదించిన ఫ్రెంచ్ ...
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Feb. 9, 2024

Izidora Angel on the experience of Emigration, Translations and the Author Hristo karastoyanov (Bulgarian)

Izidora Angel, in this conversation, spoke about her experience of Emigration to America, the initiative that she is involved in, 'Third Coast Translators Collective' and the legendary Bulgarian writer - Hristo Karastoyanov.

Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born writer and literary translator in Chicago. She is the author of three book-length translations. Her work on Yordanka Beleva’s collection, Keder, received a 2023 NEA translation fellowship; her work on She Who Remains by Rene Karabash was aw...
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