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(00:02) Introduction to Christina Kramer

(00:39) Journey as a Language Learner

(04:31) Teaching Career

(07:26) Introduction to Macedonian Language

(08:49) Work on Macedonian Grammar

(09:58) Contemporary Literature and Writing in Macedonian

(11:57) Christina's Transition from Linguist to Translator

(15:34) Translation Workflow and Challenges

(16:55) 'Freud's Sister'

(19:54) 'Bai Ganyo, Incredible Tales of Modern Bulgarian'

(23:03) 'Fear of Barbarians'

(27:57) Translation Choices and Challenges

(30:45) Current Translation Projects

Christina E. Kramer is a professor emerita at the University of Toronto, Canada. She has published numerous articles relating to Balkan linguistics and Macedonian grammar. She has translated several novels from Macedonian, including A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska, Freud's Sister by Goce Smilevski, and Fear of Barbarians by Petar Andonovski.

She has held two grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, and her translations have been included among notable works, long-listed for best-translated work, and a Lois Roth Honorary Mention.

In this conversation, she talks about her journey as a language learner and her expertise in Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Russian languages. She discusses her teaching career, where she taught Russian, Macedonian, and Slavic linguistics. She spoke about her translated work, her collaborative projects, and the challenges she has faced with linguistic complexities. Macedonian.

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(00:06) Introduction and Background of Sevinc Turkon

Sevinc Turkon earned a Ph....

(01:35) Sevinc's Multilingual Background and Journey into Translations

You know Turkish, Bulgarian, and German....

(04:12) Sevinc's PhD Dissertation and the Need for Multiple Translations

Your PhD dissertation was about the need for multiple translations....

(09:34) Sevinc's Experience Teaching Orhan Pamuk's Works

You wrote a book on teaching the works of Orhan Pamuk....

(17:40) Sevinc's Insights on Contemporary Turkish Literature

Please talk about, uh, contemporary Turkish literature....

(22:40) Current Socio-Political Situation in Turkey

Before we get on to the book, The Stone Building, can you please talk about the current socio political situation in Turkey?...

(26:48) Sevinc's Translation Journey with 'The Stone Building and Other Places'

Now, please introduce the book, The Stone Building and Other Places, and talk about the author too....

(38:34) Discussion on the Story 'Prisoners'

The first one is prisoners....

(43:21) Discussion on the Story 'The Wooden Birds'

One of the best endings that I read in a short story is from the story called The Wooden Birds....

(53:05) Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Thank you, Sevin, for your time and patiently answering all the questions....

Introduction:

Sevinc Türkkan earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois-Urbana with specialization in Translation Studies, Cross-Cultural Pedagogy, and Certification in Gender and Women Studies.

She is an assistant professor at Syracuse University, teaching courses in writing, translation, and creative nonfiction.

Her translation of 'The Stone Building and Other Places' was a finalist for the prestigious PEN translation award.\

She was named acting Judge for the PEN translation award in 2021.

Synopsis:

Sevinç Türkkan, a translator known for her work on Asli Erdogan's 'The Stone Building and Other Places'. Türkkan imparts her journey growing up with Turkish ethnicity in Bulgaria and learning multiple languages as a result. . The importance and challenges of literary translation are discussed substantively, with Türkkan sharing her struggles translating Asli Erdogan's unique style into English while swaying between the captivating original text and crafting an autonomous English counterpart. The topic transitions to the politics and contemporary literature of Turkey, focusing on the Kurdish question, its influence on writing, and the dynamics represented in Turkish literature today.

The plight of author Asli Erdogan under the Erdogan regime was emphasized, her literary brilliance celebrated, and the role of translations in her international breakthrough lauded. Türkkan concludes by reading a passage from 'The Stone Building and Other Places' in English and Turkish.

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(00:08) Introduction to Karin Tidbeck

(01:20) Karin's Journey into Storytelling

(02:42) Karin's Fascination with Speculative Fiction

(05:37) Influences and Inspirations

(07:36) Exploring the Jagannath Collection

(07:58) Character Development and Role-Playing Games

(09:17) Karin's Experience in the Gaming Industry

(16:22) Challenges of Self-Translation

(19:19) The Creative Process Behind Jagannath

(33:06) The Story Behind the Title 'Jagannath'

(39:51) Insights into Contemporary Swedish Fiction

(46:02) Reading from Jagannath

Introduction:

Karin Tidbeck lives in Sweden, where they work as a translator and creative writing teacher and write fiction in Swedish and English. They are the author of the novels Amatka, Memory Theatre and the short story collection Jagannath.

Their work has received the Campbell Award and the SF & Fantasy Translation Award, as well as several nominations, including for the World Fantasy Award.

In this conversation, Karin spoke about writing in Swedish and English, Speculative fiction, self-translation and the book 'Jagannath'.

Synopsis :

Conversation with Speculative Fiction Author Karin Tidbeck

In this podcast, Swedish author Karin Tidbeck talks about their work as a translator, creative writing teacher, and novelist. They discuss their short story collection 'Jagannath', which led to their winning the Campbell Award and the SF and Fantasy Translation Award. Tidbeck explains their affinity for speculative fiction, refers to self-translation and shares their process of generating story ideas, often starting with a character or feeling. They elaborate on their difficulties while translating their work from Swedish to English. Tidbeck reveals her career in the gaming industry and its influence on her writing and translating work. The conversation also details Tidbeck's experience with the Swedish and US publishing industry and how their writing process has evolved.

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Robin Myers is a Prolific Spanish-to-English translator. Her latest book-length translations include In Vitro by Isabel Zapata (2023), The Book of Explanations by Tedi López Mills (2022), and Copy by Dolores Dorantes (2022); her translations have appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon Review, The Common, Harvard Review, Two Lines, Waxwing,  and elsewhere. 

A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was longlisted twice for the 2022 National Translation Award in poetry and among the winners of the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets).

Her Poetry collections have been published as bilingual English-Spanish editions in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Spain. She is an alumna of the Vermont Studio Center, the Banff Literary Translation Centre, the Community of Writers, and Under the Volcano.

In this episode, she spoke about her work, the book 'Salt Crystals' and various aspects of Literary translation.

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Sebastian Schulman is a writer, editor, and literary translator from Yiddish, Esperanto, and other languages. His translations and original work have appeared in over a dozen literary journals, including Two Lines, Words Without Borders, and ANMLY. His translation of Spomenka Stimec’s Esperanto-language novel Croatian War Nocturnal was published by Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum in 2017. After several years as the executive director of the leading Yiddish arts and culture organization KlezKanada, Sebastian now serves as the director of special projects and partnerships at the Yiddish Book Center. He lives in Montréal, Québec.

In this episode, he talked about the Language Esperanto, its genesis, Esperanto literature and his translation of Sponeka Stimec's Croatian War Nocturnal from Esperanto into English.

Croatian War Nocturnal is a fictionalized memoir of the wars in former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, told from the perspective of a Croatian Esperanto activist and teacher. The book consists of short, interconnected episodes describing the daily traumas of war and genocide and their effect on life and family, memory and language. It’s an emotional account of a woman trying to make sense of the seeming collapse of the two utopian projects that have framed her life—Yugoslavia and Esperanto.

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'గోల్డెన్ టస్క్' అనే ఈ కథ శ్రీసుధ మోదుగు గారు రాసింది. అక్టోబర్ ఈమాట మ్యాగజైన్ నించీ. రచయిత్రి, కవయిత్రి అయిన శ్రీసుధ గారు వృత్తి రీత్యా వైద్యులు. జమైకాలో నివాసం.

కథ చదవడానికి కింది లింక్ ఉపయోగించండి.

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Max Lawton is a translator, novelist, and musician. He received his BA in Russian Literature and Culture from Columbia University and his MPhil from Queen’s College, Oxford, where he wrote a dissertation comparing Céline and Dostoevsky. He has translated many books by Famous Russian Writer, Vladimir Sorokin and is currently translating works by Antonio Moresco, Michael Lenz, and French writer Celine. He is writing his doctoral dissertation on phenomenology and the twentieth-century novel at Columbia University, where he also teaches Russian.

He translates from French, Russian, Italian, German, Spanish and Turkish.

Max is also the author of a novel and two collections of stories currently awaiting publication. He is a member of four heavy-music groups.

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Lara Vergnaud is a translator of prose, creative nonfiction, and scholarly works from the French. She received two PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants, a French Voices Grand Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. Her translations include novels by Zahia Rahmani, Fatima Daas, Ahmed Bouanani, Mohamed Leftah, Franck Bouysse, and Joy Sorman. 

In this episode, Lara talked about her work, Indie Presses and Translation as an intimate experience.

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For over 25 years, Leah Janeczko has been an Italian-to-English translator of fiction for all ages. Originally from Chicago, Leah has lived in Milan since 1991. Her recent translations include Glowrushes by Roberto Piumini, nominee for the 2024 Hans Christan Andersen Award; the Women at Hitler’s Table by Rosella Postorino; and Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo.

In this episode, Leah talked about her journey into translations, her translation of The Women at Hitler’s Table, and her love for translating fiction.

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Sung Ryu is a Korean-English translator who calls South Korea, the US, Canada, and Singapore home. Her translations include Tower by Bae Myung-hoon (Honford Star, 2021), Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung (Penguin Books, 2021), I’m Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young (co-translated with Sophie Bowman, Harper Voyager, 2021), and the Korean edition of Grandma Moses: My Life’s History (Suo Books, 2017) by Anna Mary Robertson Moses.

In this conversation, she spoke about the book she translated 'Shoko's Smile', her journey into translation, themes that she gets drawn to and why Translations matter to her.

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