Translators Note

Translators Note guest host Mars Grabar Sage talks to poet and translator Mona Kareem about writing, activism, and how translation can undo the power dynamics of the first domain. 

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

Translators Note host Jake Goldwasser talks to poet and translator Arthur Sze about Classical Chinese Poetry, Chinese modernism, and his new book, The Silk Dragon II. 

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

Translators Note host Jake Goldwasser talks to the poet and translator Valzhyna Mort about translation led by music and using translation as a writing process.

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

Translators Note host Jake Goldwasser talks to the poet and translator Margaret Ross about the frame of a poem and her translations of the Chinese poet Huang Fan.

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

To kick off the new season, Jake Goldwasser talks to the creators of Translators Note, Julia Conrad and Abby Ryder-Huth, about the podcast and the books they are working on.

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

For our spring episode of Translators Note, Claire talks with Mary Jo Bang about her experiences with co-translation, translating Dante, and being translated herself. 

 

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

After a long delay, please enjoy this newest episode of Translators Note, in which the wonderful John Keene speak about translation, our conversation moving from his own work to broader ideas about the art and the field. 

 

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

Where do we find the intersections between translation practices and frameworks of language justice? How can the metaphors we use to talk about translation move toward language justice? In this episode, I spoke to Jen/Eleana Hofer about these questions and others, and about their work with language justice and as a translator and interpreter.

 

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Here are links to some of the projects and resources mentioned during the episode!

Antena Aire’s Language Justice Resource Page

Antena Aire Pamphlets

Roberto Tijerina & Language Justice

Jen's translation of Virginia Lucas in Shenandoah Literary Review (including the footnote read during the episode and the poem to which it belongs)

 

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

Only a fraction of works published in translation are plays, and only a fraction of plays produced are translations, but theater is a wonderful genre that comes with its own unique set of translation challenges. Moving from late 19th- and early 20th-century American Yiddish theater to contemporary Japanese theater, Claire Breger-Belsky talks to Nahma Sandrow, Yiddish theater translator and historian, and Aya Ogawa, a playwright, director, performer, and translator from the Japanese, about translating drama.

 

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.

People commonly picture translators, like writers, working alone with their texts. Presenting a different view, this episode explores community and the ways translators support each other and work together. Claire Breger-Belsky gets an inside look from American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) program manager and Spanish/Swedish translator Kelsi Vanada, and Julia Conrad catches up with Italian/German translator, publishing consultant, and member of multiple translation collectives Alta Price. You can find ALTA’s list of translation collectives here.

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Our theme music is by Nate Repasz; other music in the episode is by Tim Kahn.