Of possible interest to list members:
THE BRITISH LIBRARY
Centre for the Book
WORLD BOOK DAY LECTURE
Thursday 23 April 1998
at 18.15
PETER McCAREY
`TRANSLATOR TRATTORIA'
On the birthday of both Shakespeare and Cervantes, the translator,
essayist and poet Peter McCarey discusses automatic translation from
the days of alchemy to 'the computer age'. With new material on the
early days of simultaneous interpretation, Dr McCarey asks, and begins
to answer, `Will machines ever translate like humans? Will it matter?'
Author of the critical study Hugh MacDiarmid and the Russians
(Edinburgh, 1987), as well as the poetry collections Town Shanties
(Glasgow, 1990), The Devil in the Driving Mirror (London, 1995) and
Tantris (Lines Review, 1997), Peter McCarey is the Head of English
Translation at the World Health Organization. He also teaches
translation at Geneva University.
Venue: British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1
Admission £4 (usual concessions £2.50)
Tickets from the Box Office, tel: 0171-412 7222
(Richard Price)
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