Literary Translators: Creative, Cultural and Collecting Contexts
Held at the British Library Conference Centre, London
3rd October 2011
9:00am – 8:30pm
A one-day conference jointly organised by the British Library, the Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts, the British Centre for Literary Translation, the University of Birmingham, Poet in the City, the Polish Cultural Institute and the Lithuanian Embassy
Keynote address: Daniel Hahn (British Centre for Literary Translation and Chair of the Translators Association)
Participants to include:
Rebecca Carter (Commissioning Editor, Random House)
Ruth Fainlight (poet and translator)
Michael Frayn (playwright)
Rosie Goldsmith (journalist and broadcaster)
Hamid Ismailov (journalist and writer) and Robert Chandler (poet and translator)
Ros Schwartz (Chair, Writers in Translation Committee at English PEN)
This conference aims to bring together translators, academics, postgraduates, writers, publishers, librarians and archivists to examine the various relationships and contexts around literature in translation. Speakers and delegates will explore the collecting of translators’ papers as a research, educational and creative resource alongside questions including publishing models for translation, the creative dynamics of translation and differences between genres, academic and popular responses to literature and translation, and the political and socio-cultural contexts in which literary translation originates and is received. The conference seeks to have impact beyond the day itself, cultivating collaborations and initiating opportunities for delegates to pursue innovative research, business and creative projects in the future.
Conference fees (including buffet lunch and refreshments):
£35 / £25 students
The conference will be followed by our evening event, Czeslaw Milosz: A Centenary Celebration (Chaired by David Constantine, editor of Modern Poetry in Translation; speakers to include Fiona Sampson, Kornelijus Platelis and Irena Grudzinska Gross). Attendance at the event is free, but to reserve your place, please email [log in to unmask] or telephone +44 (0)7908 367488.
For more details about the event, please see http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event123737.html
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