Between the Lines - Conversations in Translation

Psychoanalysis and the arts have always been companions: Freud draws on Sophocles and Michelangelo, Jung on Hesse, Lacan on Sophocles too. These are acts of translation between different ways of thinking and working, different ways of experiencing society and each other. In this podcast Timothy Mathews talks with renowned psychoanalyst and gender theorist Juliet Mitchell about psychoanalysis and art, about how the positions we each occupy on our own can be translated and heard. A conversation about how art and psychoanalysis speak to each other and to life. It took place as part of the UCL Festival of the Arts 2014. 

Pleasure, Pain & The Capacity To Relate

Timothy Mathews talks with Agnès Thurnauer in her studio in Paris about the relation between word and image in her paintings. About art as translation, witness and transformation of the past, and as a confident engagement with the present.  Word and image disrupt each other in Agnès Thurnauer’s paintings, but also work together to invite viewers to imagine generous relations between women and men.

Between the Lines - Agnès Thurnauer

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

In this podcast Timothy Mathews interviews Alessandro Gallenzi, the managing editor of Alma Books, about his long and varied experience in publishing translations of European literature and writing them.

Hosted by Dr Tim Mathews (UCL) and Dr Simon Cooke (Wolfson College, Oxford).  

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Between the Lines: Alessandro Gallenzi - Alma Classics

Joyce Crick taught German at UCL for many years. Since her retirement she has translated a variety of texts, including for Oxford World's Classics, which was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck prize in 2000, Selected Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and Kafka’s A Hunger Artist and Other Stories, both also for OUP. She talks here freely and widely about her explorations in English of Freud and Kafka. A highlight is the way she hears the word Schuld which is German for guilt.

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Between The Lines: Joyce Crick

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

Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for nearly twenty-five years and has translated many novels and short stories by Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American writers, including Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, Javier Marías, Bernardo Atxaga, Luis Fernando Verissimo and Alberto Barrera Tyszka. She has won various prizes for her work, most recently, the 2012 Calouste Gulbenkian Prize with Teolinda Gersão’s The Word Tree, for which she was also runner-up with António Lobo Antunes’s The Land at the End of the World .

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Between the Lines - Margaret Jull Costa

Between the Lines - Adam Freudenheim

Between the Lines - Maureen Freely

Between the Lines - Steve Waters

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Between the Lines - Conversations in Translation

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