Post Tagged with: "world authors"
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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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Writing, Life, and Death (Goodbye to Imre Kertész)
Writing Life and Death. Writing: Life and Death. Writing Life, and Death. Punctuation is never quite innocent. These three variations on a possible title together draw a portrait of […]
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Thesis of the Month: New Commitment: Authors Against the Unacceptable
Chloé Chaudet tells the story of her thesis about literary commitment and how she had to face preconceptions about this phenomenon, which seems outdated to most contemporary literary scholars and […]
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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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Ulrike Draesner
German author Ulrike Draesner returned to Lancaster University from 17th–20th February as Writer-in-Residence, whilst teaching students on the topic of Translation as a Cultural Practice. Ulrike Draesner has won multiple awards across […]
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Thesis of the Month: The Currency of Translation
Sally-Ann Spencer reflects on the evolution of her PhD thesis and finds its end at the beginning as she follows an author across languages. (Thesis Title: Books Across Borders: […]
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Conference Report: World Authors and Translators in the Global Circulation of Capital 2 July – 3 July 2015
By Anna-Katharina Krüger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The first conference day started early in the morning, after a wonderful breakfast during which I already had the chance to meet some of the speakers […]
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Translation as the Quiet Revolution in UK Publishing
By Alessandro Gallenzi I was delighted to take part in one of the Authors and the World seminars at Lancaster University, a lively round-table discussion with other colleagues from […]
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Blog: The Pakistani-born British writer, Qaisra Shahraz, and her visit to Lancaster University
The novelist, screenwriter and college inspector, Qaisra Shahraz, visited Lancaster University on March 11th, at the invitation of the Department of European Languages and Cultures and the AHRC Project Hub: […]
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