Tag: literary translation
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Spring 2023 SlavFile, focus on South Slavic languages
Click to read or download the latest issue of SlavFile, newsletter of the Slavic Language Division (SLD) of the American Translators Association (ATA).
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Eleven+ years
I think my photo needs updating. My first post, on February 20, 2011, was this: Jack of all trades Translation assignments run the gamut — generalists must become instant experts in the topic of the day. The irony is that beginning translators will take almost any job. On occasion, they will even quote on jobs without…
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Dreamy, steamy, seamy
Between the Sheets: Translating Sex in Catherine the Great and the Small. This is the title of the session the three of us — author Olja Knežević and translators Ellen Elias-Bursać and I — are presenting at ALTA43, the American Literary Translators Association’s annual conference. (The conference theme is “In Between” — I couldn’t resist.)…
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As few words as possible, words as short as possible
Muhamede, jesi tuč. The title of this post in Bosnian could be Što manje, što kraće. Clearly the advantage is in the opposite direction when it comes to subtitling. More on this anon, but for now, just to say that the comedy-drama Focus, Grandma (Koncentriši se, Baba, dir. Pjer Žalica, 2020) is available to rent…
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Doing is better than stewing
This is the danger of getting enough sleep — so many thoughts, so little time! What shall I do today? (Assuming I don’t shelve everything and watch baseball with my mom — Phillies currently losing to the Yankees in spring training.) I listened to Radiolab while eating breakfast (I’ll admit it, breakfast at 1 pm,…
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Finalist!
Winner: “Danica Mae” and other poems, by Jim Pascual Augustin Finalists: “Meat” by Ilija Đurović, translated by Paula Gordon Five poems by Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, translated by Karen Kovacik Lunch Ticket is a literary and art journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles. They host The Gabo Prize for Literature in…
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War from a tween’s perspective
One day after the Facebook post that was heard around the region, I saw another post about what war was like—this time from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl. In this piece we experience the days and weeks immediately preceding the siege, the down-to-the-wire relocation, and then the years of day-to-day survival in a city…
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War for beginners
I used to rely on an RSS reader to stay on top of world events. Now I use Facebook. I know I am not getting the whole story there, but I am definitely getting a sense of how my friends think, what they’re concerned about, and what is going on in their parts of the…
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Notes from a presentation (2)
Montenegrin Vernacular at the End of the 20th Century as Portrayed in Two Plays by Ljubomir Đurković Presentation at the 20th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, 28 April 2016, Salt Lake City, Utah Here’s what I wrote in my proposal: Developing over centuries of migrating tribes, changing political affiliations,…