Post Tagged with: "translation"
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Burgtheater
Elfriede Jelineks Burgtheater : nicht/nur für Österreich? This essay by Allyson Fiddler investigates why Jelinek’s controversial play ‘Burgtheater’ (first published 1982) has been staged only once – and very belatedly – […]
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Roman Ehrlich
The critically acclaimed writer Roman Ehrlich is certainly one of the most unconventional and interesting voices among young contemporary writers in Germany and Authors & the World is happy to welcome him […]
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Pacing out a Polyglot Poetics
To what extent is reading a book like walking into a museum? In this conversation, held in early 2017 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Rebecca Braun and Ulrike […]
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CfP: “The Space in Between: Thinking Translation in Creation”
“The Space in Between: Thinking Translation in Creation” Study Day and Workshop 29th-30th of June 2017 What happens when artists and writers experiment with translation in their works? What happens […]
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Translated Stories, Translated Worlds: round-table discussion
Find out about the Man Booker International Prize and life as a translator The Storey Institute, Lancaster 22 March 2017, 19:00-22:00 What does it take to become a literary translator? […]
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Alpha and the Spectacular Translation Machine comes to Lancaster!
18th March 2017, The Storey Institute, Lancaster, 11:00-17:00 Book your free tickets here Alpha, a powerful graphic novel in French by Bessora and Barroux, tells the story […]
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Being Günter Grass
This chapter by Rebecca Braun looks at the British reception of Günter Grass specifically as the author of The Tin Drum, with an emphasis on the final 25 years of […]
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Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne spent three weeks in March 2016 at the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster as translator-in-residence. As part of his stay, he worked alongside our MA students […]
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World Authorship: Charting the Human Face of Literature
Interim report on an idea By Tobias Boes and Rebecca Braun World literature, as both a marketing phenomenon and an area of academic study, is booming. But amidst all […]
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Ecos from the Past: Homage to an Author
Umberto Eco died. I wish it were one of his characters stating this; we could then doubt it. One of the many things you learn with Eco’s fiction is namely […]
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