Tag: Translation

  • Nation & World

    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

    5 minutes
    Damion Searls and Jon Fosse at the National Book Awards in 2022.
  • Nation & World

    New chapter for ‘The Odyssey’

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

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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 minute