Tag: Lawrence Venuti

Workshop Again, a Chair, and a Commons

After a decade and a half, I’ve returned to teaching a graduate-level translation workshop. The last time I did this was at the University of Iowa in 2012. So, not yesterday. Except maybe in the Beatles’ sense. This was my long-time colleague Bill Johnston’s course at Indiana University for more than twenty years, and when… Continue reading Workshop Again, a Chair, and a Commons

Translating Amanda Gorman

Non-translators might not have paid much attention to the recent controversy over the projected translation of U.S. National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s first book of poetry into Dutch, but many of us who translate have been following and discussing it quite a bit. The basic story is that the contracted publisher (Meulenhoff) hired author… Continue reading Translating Amanda Gorman

The Translator’s Answerability

My previous post on Masha Gessen’s review of the two new Anna Karenina translations, one each by Rosamund Bartlett and Marian Schwartz, attracted some criticisms. I’ll respond in a couple of posts to make each one shorter. John Cowan comments, “You write as if the translator had no responsibility to the author at all, and… Continue reading The Translator’s Answerability