Between the Lines - Conversations in Translation

A conversation with translators Anthea Bell OBE and Dr Jo Catling about their work translating W.G. Sebald.

Hosted by Dr Tim Mathews (UCL) and Dr Simon Cooke (Wolfson College, Oxford). 

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Between the lines: Translating W G Sebald

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator, with some thirty books to his name. His translations from Portuguese, Spanish and French include fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. His books have won him both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (a prize he has also judged) and the Blue Peter Book Award. 

A former chair of the UK Translators Association, he is currently national programme director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. Among other projects he is currently writing the new Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. 

In this interview he talks widely about the linguistic, cultural and personal experiences of translating literary works into English, and the discussion turns in particular to The Book of Chameleons, by the Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, and The Piano Cemetery by the Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto

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Between The Lines: Daniel Hahn

Clive Scott is Professor Emeritus at UEA. He has written on many aspects of French and comparative poetics, on the relationship between literature and the visual arts, particularly in Impressionism and Symbolism, on the literature of travel, on photography, and on literary translation which he discusses widely here. 

In 2012 he published Translating the Perception of Text (Legenda), and Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading (CUP), which is the focus of this interview. In it he explores the importance of creativity in translation and in generating responses to texts.

http://www.uea.ac.uk/lit/People/Clive+Scott

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Between the Lines: Clive Scott

Eugenia Loffredo and Manuela Perteghella are the co-editors of Translation and Creativity (Continuum 2006) and One Poem in Search of a Translator (Peter Lang 2008).  

They met in 1998 at the University of East Anglia, UK, while studying for postgraduate degrees in literary translation, Eugenia specialising in experimental translation, Manuela in theatre translation, and have since collaborated in several translation projects. 

They are both interested in developing the idea of translation as a creative form of text making, and have set up The Creative Literary Studio (http://thecreativeliterarystudio.wordpress.com/) in November 2012, a blog and a virtual space encouraging experimentation, performance and the creation of texts through translation.

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Between The Lines: Eugenia Loffredo and Manuela Perteghella

Between the Lines - Adam Freudenheim

Between the Lines - Steve Waters

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Between The Lines: Daniel Hahn

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