Tag: Translation

  • Arts & Culture

    How to translate a Nobel-winning author (and 700-page sentence)

    Damion Searls — English ‘gateway’ for Jon Fosse and other writers — discusses Harvard roots, elevating new voices, and his multilingual ‘Matrix’ moment

    4–6 minutes
    Damion Searls and Jon Fosse at the National Book Awards in 2022.
  • Arts & Culture

    New chapter for ‘The Odyssey’

    Professor Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate the ancient epic “The Odyssey” into English, explains her milestone achievement.

    5–8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Found in translation

    An associate curator at the Woodberry Poetry Room is also a translator who has brought a Chinese poet’s work to life for a widening audience.

    3–4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Poets, meet translators

    Noted Spanish-language poets are visiting Harvard this week in a first-of-its-kind event that pairs the poets and their works with top translators in the field.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Chinese scholars celebrate Gates

    Specialists in African-American and American literature from across China gathered on Dec. 11 and 12 at the Beijing Foreign Studies University to commemorate the 60th birthday of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    1–2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Purgatory

    This is Zurita’s harrowing chronicle of General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile, along with the writer’s subsequent arrest and torture. It’s a visually stunning book of unforgettable poems.

    1–2 minutes