PODCAST · arts
Literary Translation: Art or Echo?
by RNZ
Exploring the role of literary translators and their work
Episodes
-
Art or Echo - The author/translator relationship: love or hate?
"Many critics, no defenders, translators have but two regrets: when we hit, no one remembers, when we miss, no one forgets." (Anonymous). Amelia talks to Jean Anderson, director of the NZ Centre for Literary Translation, poet Bill Manhire and Marco Sonzogni, senior lecturer in Italian at Victoria...
-
Art or Echo - Can Culture be Translated?
English writer Anthony Burgess once said, "Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture." Amelia Nurse talks to Jean Anderson, director of the NZ Centre for Literary Translation, Marco Sonzogni, senior lecturer in Italian at Victoria University,...
-
Art or Echo - Can poetry be translated?
English writer George Borrow once said, "Translation is at best an echo." Amelia Nurse looks at four wildly different translations of a single poem by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, with Jean Anderson, director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation. Marco Sonzogni, senior lecturer in...
-
Art or Echo - What is literary translation anyway?
Writer Kurt Vonnegut once said, "All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am in at least two languages, one of them mine." Amelia Nurse visits Jean Anderson, director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation and Marco Sonzogni, senior lecturer in...
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Exploring the role of literary translators and their work
HOSTED BY
RNZ
CATEGORIES
Loading similar podcasts...