Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/19/2018
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Oct 19: 2-4 pm Workshop: An Introduction to Literary Translation
This introductory workshop will familiarize you with the basic tools you’ll need to approach literary translation if you’re new to it, and provide insights into key issues for more experienced practitioners. No particular foreign-language skills or previous experience required. You’ll never look at a translated book the same way again!
Please rsvp: zeitgeistnw@gmail.com
Place: Portland State University, Karl Miller Center 180
This event is part of the “Wunderbar Together” Inititative, a US-wide initiative celebrating over 50 years of German-American relations, and is hosted by Portland State University and co-sponsored by Reed College.
About Susan Bernofksy:
Susan Bernofsky is known for her translations of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha (Modern Library, 2006), Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (Norton, 2014), and Jeremias Gotthelf’s 19th-Century horror story The Black Spider (NYRB Classics, 2013). Her translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel The End of Days won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, The Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, the Ungar Award for Literary Translation, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Her translation of the novel Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada won the 2017 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Her most recent translation is Jenny Erpenbeck’s award-winning novel Go, went, gone (2017).
