Starting in the spring 2020 semester, the University of Connecticut began offering a minor that allows students to explore literary translation while learning how to interact with people from other ...

Two graduate students at the University of Connecticut recently received awards from the PEN American Center for their work in the field of literary translation. Peter Constantine, former recipient of ...

The English translation of Omani poet and novelist Zahran al Qasimi’s work, 'Honey Hunger', by British translator Marilyn ...

How is literary translation different from other forms of translation? To oversimplify a little, non-literary translation such as commercial, legal, medical etc. tends to focus on the meaning of a ...

Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example in the form of online dictionaries and corpora, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine ...

I START from a patent fact,—the widespread ignorance of classical literature on the part of persons who have received a classical education. It is not the scholarship of scholars that is here impugned ...

The Cultural House in Jazan held a cultural meeting yesterday evening titled “The Importance of Translating Saudi Literature.

A new legal framework has been established to enable the Literature Translation Institute of Korea to create a degree-granting graduate school for literary translation studies. With approval from the ...

Translating literature, from Dostoevsky to Banu Mushtaq, demands more than linguistic accuracy—it requires a writer’s instinct, cultural awareness, and radical sensitivity to language. Recent ...

“You don’t have your own field to plough, so you go to plough in other people’s fields,” said a commentator about literary translators, in the context of an incident that was discussed widely on the ...

“My decision to translate with attention to sound and cadence and rhyme will, I hope, demonstrate to readers and listeners—the Qur’an is meant to be read aloud—the beauty of the text, something that ...

Mangaluru: Former Vice-Chancellor and eminent scholar Prof. B.A. Vivek Rai has underscored the need to translate major works ...