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Three Percent Review: To the Spring, by Night »
Three Percent, part of the University of Rochester’s translation program, is an online resource for international literature. The website was launched in 2007 with the view that “reading literature from other countries is vital to maintaining a vibrant book culture and to increasing the exchange of ideas among cultures. In this age of globalization, … Read More >
Honouring Sheila Fischman »
The following excerpt is from In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman, by Sherry Simon.
That translation has ongoing and sometimes unexpected effects is suggested by both the Latin word vertere and the medieval French term tourner. In contrast to the more mechanical idea of “carrying over” (transferre), these terms for translation emphasize the way that … Read More >
To the Spring, by Night »
Donald Winkler, translator of Seyhmus Dagtekin’s To the Spring, by Night, is today’s guest blogger.
In the spring of 2004 I was asked by an international translation revue to put into English some excerpts from a long poem by a French language writer whose name was unfamiliar to me: Seyhmus Dagtekin. I soon found out that … Read More >
