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Stuck in a rut? Need some words of wisdom to get you going? Or just want to find out how poems gets translated? Then check out hours worth of translation-related content below!
Sebald Lectures have been hosted every year since 2010 by the British Centre for Literary Translation. Notable speakers include Arundhati Roy and Margaret Atwood.
The UK’s National Centre for Writing and New Dutch Writing have joined up to host conversations between writers and the translators of their work (!)
Check out Translators Aloud’s terrific playlist to learn what it takes to get a book translation published, and to see literary translators reading their own work.
The Poetry Translation Centre’s archive of poems shows original, literal, and ‘poetic’ translations of free verse and formal poetry alike. A veritable treasure trove for anyone curious about what this work takes!
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A note on playlists above:
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